[Steppes] Gaelic Language Question

[Quill]

Actually, I'd quite like to know what's going on with that as well; Yagyu,
mate, I know you're busy, but the occasional email would be nice!

Secondly, in answer to your linguistic queery, Nzingha, I actually found
that Wikipedia has rather a brilliant article here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differences_between_Scottish_Gaelic_and_Irish
Saves me time writing it, gives some excellent examples, and also saves a
lot of list space.

Your question is a fun one to explore though; their similarities and
differences are fascinating, from pronunciation of similar words to complete
discrepancies in grammatical structure. Irish and Scots Gaelic are both from
the Goidelic branch of the Celtic-Insular Celtic family, along with Manx. In
a way the are not so much two different languages as they are really more
dialectic groups with a horrifyingly delicious tangelweb of connections and
dead ends between them. (Also, Scots G. is more closely related to Manx than
Irish G. is.)

For the purpose of your song, learning a bit of Irish can't hurt... much. I
don't know that learning to pronounce words in Irish rather than Scots will
help or hinder your cause; you'd probably have to discuss in further detail
with Yagyu. (Goidelic isn't my branch anyway.)

Cheers!

-- 
In service to The Dream,
Cuillioc "Quill"  /|\
Titled Bard of the Barony of Bonwicke and Mendershamshire



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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:47:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Nzingha, The Moor Of Dundee" <rogueofdundee at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Steppes] Gaelic Language Question
> To: Nancy Chevalier <chevalier8278 at yahoo.com>, elfsea at ansteorra.org,
>         glaslyn at ansteorra.org, steppes at ansteorra.org
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> When is/are the next Gaelic Language meetings?  How different is Irish
> Gaelic from Scottish Gaelic?  I'm in the process of learning a song, half in
> English and half in Gaelic.
>
>   Chi Mi na Mo'rbheanna translated as I see the Great Mountains also known
> as The Mist Covered Mountains Of Home.  It's in Scottish Gaelic, but I would
> like to know some of the fundamentals, hoping the 2 languages are similar
> enough; but I don't know.  Thanks, Leza aka Nzingha, The Moor Of Dundee.
>
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