How to Tell Apart Scottish-Gaelic and Irish Gaelic

how to tell apart scottish gaelic and irish gaelic and yes that is how you're meant to pronounce those two words in their different contexts so in the british isles many different languages are spoken and in certain parts of scotland and the island of ireland so yes that's northern ireland and parts of the republic of ireland certain people speak one or more of the gaelic languages and these were brought over during the dark ages by people from northern ireland specifically dal rayada which was a kingdom that stretched over both parts of northern ireland the province of ulster and parts of south western scotland and they brought over the language to the people who we assume were speaking a cute celtic language a different type of language and that's why we have gallic in the highlands and islands of scotland today because of this dark age immigration now it's also interesting that this language was brought over to the isle of man in between ireland and great britain in the irish sea and this is where the manx language comes from but i won't be covering that in this video and these all together are known as the guadellic celtic languages it's a fancy way of saying the gaelic celtic languages because the people from ireland who came over the seas are known as the gaels now the p celtic languages are languages like welsh cornish and breton the ones who were originally spoken on the main island of great britain whereas cue heldic languages are ones like scottish gaelic irish gaelic known in ireland as irish but i'll be referring to it as irish gaelic so as not to confuse it with the scottish gaelic in this video and manx but now how do you tell scottish gaelic from irish gaelic because to the foreign eye they look incredibly similar they're those celtic words those annoying annoying celtic words that we just can't seem to pronounce at all but in this video i'm going to show how you can actually tell them apart quite easily just by looking at them so i should also include that many parts of ireland they speak different variations and dialects of irish or irish gaelic so in the north the main sort of dialect that's spoken there is ulster whereas in the west you have connaught and in the south you have the monster dialect being spoken and now it should be mentioned that the northern dialect the ulster dialect is more similar to scottish gaelic and speakers of irish in the north might understand more scottish gaelic than ones from the south and it's also true that speakers of scottish gaelic from argyll or isla the island there also have an easier time understanding irish gaelic than people from say more to the north in scotland let's begin by looking at a scottish gallic phrase that i will now read for you with my impeccable accent valcie kim rahashev giant notice that in this phrase all of the accents are pointing the same way and this is no coincidence because actually it's quite a recent development in scottish garlic the new grammar reforms have made it so that all the accents are pointing to the left which is a big key indicator for seeing if something is scottish gaelic now let's have a look at a similar set of phrases in the irish gaelic languages and see if you can spot some of the differences not only in my pronunciation which is of course impeccable in both languages as well as the accents and which way they're facing vulture connoisseur tattoo kadzanam ditch as you can see the accents in the irish gaelic language are pointing in the opposite direction to those in the scottish gaelic one they are pointing to the right and all accents in the irish gaelic language point to the right rather than the left so this is another huge point if you're seeing a chelsea language that looks like it could be one either irish or the scottish gallic language if they're pointing to the right then it's irish this is a great way to tell the two languages apart if the accents are going left it's scottish gaelic if they're going right it's irish gaelic now one way you can remember this is that obviously if they're going right right begins with an r and irish has an r whereas scottish gaelic or scottish galaxari does not so that's one way you could remember that and it's very easy because most words do have accents in these languages but what if they don't then there are some other tricks that you can use so one is this nice distinction here which is in the word shiv which is the word for you in the plural form so if i was speaking my own journey dialect i'd say yes which is like the you plural or in america you might say yo that kind of thing and the interesting thing is that in both scottish garlic and irish gaelic they are used as in the u as in plural as in use or y'all that kind of thing however in scottish gaelic it's also used as the formal you form now in english there is only one word for you and no matter if you're addressing the queen or your mate you say you to that person however in other languages like in french you have vu which is a formal kind of you which you speak and you say to people when you are speaking to someone of a higher rank than you or someone who's elderly or someone for whom you have a lot of respect so for example you have vu or you have in dutch you have oo and yay and frisian do and yo in german do and see and in spanish 2 and usted and this is also the case in scottish gallic you also have this whereas in irish gaelic they don't have this at all so you have a formal u-form which is shiv in scottish gaelic which is used fairly often whereas in irish gaelic they just have the informal u-form rather than an extra formal u-form which i thought was quite an interesting distinction another distinction that you can make is in the name of the language so this is how you say scottish gaelic or gaelic from scotland to be precise in scottish gaelic now you will notice that the h before alaba which is the gallic word for scotland has got a hyphen and is lower case whereas alapa has an uppercase whereas if we look at the same thing so also saying scottish gallic but then in irish gaelic you'll notice there is no hyphen and it's the same with the capital of alban and the lowercase h and this is because if there is a hyphenated h which will be lowercase in front of a word then it's scottish garlic whereas in irish gaelic they don't hyphenate the h at all so that's one distinction you can pull between the two hyphenated h is scottish gaelic whereas unhyphenated h before a capital is indication that it's irish gaelic and actually once upon a time this the both languages used to do both things but as they've uh grown older and grown apart they've grown more separate and some things have been retained actually scottish garlic is more conservative so it's retained more of the old irish forms whereas new irish or irish gaelic as i've been calling it in this video has gone on its own road more which is interesting as these languages diverge because they were once the same language now an interesting thing is that these sound combinations and letter combinations will not be found in scottish garlic a e c s c h t and b h f are all found in irish words but not in scottish gallic words now we can say the same about certain combinations in irish gaelic so sd chd and sg are all not found in irish gaelic but are common in the scottish gaelic language so that sounds like a lot to take in so let's have a quick recap before it's quiz time so scottish gallic the accents will point to the left whereas in irish gaelic remember the r for irish accents point to the right are for right scottish gaelic you have a hyphenated h before a capital then that's an indication that it's scottish gaelic because in irish gaelic they don't do that it's just a lowercase h no hyphen another is the formal u the shiv which is also used in irish gaelic but isn't used as the formal u it's used as the plural u just as it is in scottish gaelic and finally these unique sounds to scottish gallic are sd sg and chd so these are found in scottish gaelic but you will not find them in irish gaelic whereas if you see the letter combinations s c a e c h t and bhf that won't be in scottish gaelic that will only be an irish gaelic so take a moment to look at these learn the letter combinations remember which way your accents go because yes folks it's quiz time the rules are gloriously simple simply write in the comments one to six because there'll be six questions then you have to write either scottish gaelic or irish gaelic for each number depending on which language you see on the screen now you'll have seven seconds to decide whether the phrases which will be in order of course are in scottish garlic or irish gaelic good luck everyone [Music] so time for the answers now this one the first one was scottish gallic well done if you got that right because the accents they are pointing to the left the second one as well was scottish gallic because there are no accents on this one a little bit more tricky but you have the chd combination which isn't found in irish gaelic now the next one was actually irish gaelic because the accents in this one are pointing to the right and i actually said this one as part of my irish gaelic phrase earlier on in the video the next one as well was irish gaelic no accents again so it's a bit tougher but you can maybe tell because of the way that the irish say gallic or gaelic themselves is written on the screen there and also there was a double hint that you had the bhf which is found in irish gaelic but not in scottish gaelic let's not choke up on that word it's a key one the next one was scottish gallic as well because you had the sg which is a bit hidden it's in the middle of the word but you don't find that in irish gaelic anywhere whereas it's quite common in scottish gaelic the last one was irish gaelic because once again the axons are pointing to the right so in order if you have scottish garlic then scottish garlic followed by irish gaelic irish gaelic then scottish gaelic and irish gaelic then you had six out of six and you should be very proud of yourself well done i'd like to mention in this point in the video that this video the proceeds from this from the advertising revenue will go towards the alzheimer's society now my family has recently been affected quite severely by alzheimer's and several of my family members are doing the great north run which is a marathon in the northeast near to where i live and so i will link below if you would like to support the alzheimer's society by giving a special donation there now you may be thinking the alzheimer's society why on earth are you talking about that on a video about irish and scottish garlic and gaelic well one of the reasons is that it has been found by many studies and surveys that if you speak a second language that actually the chance of getting dementia and then going into alzheimer's is somewhat decreased and it seems to be very beneficial so i will also link below some websites and courses etc where you can learn either irish gaelic or scottish gaelic now i'm a big upholder of minority languages as well so i think if you're from either an irish community or a scottish community then you should go off and try to learn the language as much as you can because i think it's an incredibly important part of the culture and the heritage and i would highly support anyone doing that um to go off and learn more if you enjoyed my little video today which showed a tiny piece of the language of course and obviously i'm not fluent in any way shape or form at either of these languages as you can probably tell from my pronunciation but i would highly recommend to go and do that now the reason i thought i'd make this video about this and then talk about the alzheimer's society and being able to support them is actually because one of those surveys and studies that i mentioned was actually done on retired people on the isle of skye which is a traditional place where garlic is still spoken i believe and was certainly spoken for hundreds and hundreds of years and the study that they did found that they had been teaching people on the isle of skye who knew no gallic whatsoever they'd been putting through intensive courses and they found that even after just a week or so of doing these intensive language courses that their brains were responding much better than those who didn't do it so even in really old age there's no excuse not to go and learn one of these languages which i'm sure you'll agree despite my pronunciation are incredibly beautiful and worth preserving so thank you very much there'll be links down below to the alzheimer's society if you'd like to make a special donation to help the members of my family who are also doing the great north run the money of course goes to the alzheimer's society and it's like the funding them for going off and doing the um the run itself and as well as to um the language learning places where you can learn either scottish garlic or irish gaelic if you so wish so thank you very much for watching i hope you have enjoyed how this hell apart scottish gaelic and irish gaelic and i hope you were able to fathom my pronunciations and ramblings so i really hope you do enjoy this video and share it around if you can because of course every single view that is earning money now for the alzheimer's society which is going to help people out in the long run and in the future because i think many families have been affected by this and i thought i'd do something with my channel to help out if i can so thank you very much for watching please do go and check out some of the language learning stuff as well if you want to learn more about scottish garlic or irish gaelic i've got many other videos about languages and history and whatnot if something catches your eye and i hope you all have a fantastic day i have been history with hilbert and i thank you very much 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Length: 14min 26sec (866 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 07 2018