Glasgow Gaelic

Glasgow Gaelic
Gaelic of Glasgow Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig Ghlaschu
Native to	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Region	Scotland
Ethnicity	Scottish people
Native speakers	5,739 [1] [ need quotation to verify ][ dubious – discuss ]
Language family	Indo-European Celtic Insular Celtic Goidelic Mid-Minch Gaelic Glasgow Gaelic
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Celtic Proto-Goidelic Primitive Irish Old Irish Middle Irish Early Modern Irish Scottish Gaelic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Glasgow Gaelic is an emerging accent of Mid-Minch Gaelic. ^{[2] [3] [ need quotation to verify ]} Around 10% of Scottish Gaelic speakers in Scotland are in Glasgow, second only to the Western Isles in concentration. ^[4]

Glasgow Gaelic emerged due to Scottish Gaelic-medium education as well as a migration from the Outer Hebrides to Glasgow. ^{[5] [ need quotation to verify ]}

In 2019 urban poet Niall O'Gallagher was appointed Bàrd Baile Ghlaschu, or as the City of Glasgow's first ever Gaelic language Poet Laureate. ^[6]

References

1. "Census Results". scrol.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 11 April 2014.
2. "New Gaelic speakers are 'developing a Glasgow accent'". The Herald. December 22, 2015. Dr Nance said the traits emerging in Glasgow Gaelic could currently best be described as an "accent" rather than a dialect, which would take generations to develop.
3. Nance, Claire (September 15, 2015). "'New' Scottish Gaelic speakers in Glasgow: A phonetic study of language revitalisation" . Language in Society. 44 (4): 553–579. doi:10.1017/S0047404515000408 – via Cambridge University Press.
4. "Evolution of 'Glasgow Gaelic' | Royal Celtic Society". royalcelticsociety.scot. Glasgow accounts for 10% of Scotland's 65000 Gaelic speakers – the highest concentration of speakers of the language outside the Western Isles
5. Nance, Claire (October 15, 2018). Smith-Christmas, Cassie; Ó Murchadha, Noel P.; Hornsby, Michael; Moriarty, Máiréad (eds.). New Speakers of Minority Languages: Linguistic Ideologies and Practices. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 213–230. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-57558-6_11 – via Springer Link.
6. Edited by Linden Bicket, Emma Dymock, and Alison Jack (2024), Scottish Religious Poetry: From the Sixth Century to the Present, Saint Andrew Press, Edinburgh. p. 309.