Classical Gaelic

Classical Gaelic
Spoken in	Scotland
Extinct	18th century (replaced by Modern Gaelic)
Language family	Indo-European Celtic Insular Celtic Goidelic Classical Gaelic
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ghc

Classical Gaelic (Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig Chlasaigeach; Irish: Gaeilge Chlasaiceach) is the term used in Scotland for the shared literary form that was in use in Scotland and Ireland 13th to the 18th century.^[1] The language is that of Early Modern Irish (also known as Classical Irish but not to be confused with Classical Old Irish). Although the first written signs of Scottish Gaelic having diverged from Early Modern Irish appear as far back as the 12th century annotations of the Book of Deer, Scottish Gaelic did not appear in writing or print on a significant scale until the 1767 translation of the New Testament into Scottish Gaelic.^[2]

Encoding

Ethnologue gives the name "Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic" (and the ISO 639-3 code ghc) as a cover term for Classical Gaelic and Early Modern Irish.

References

1. ^ Ó Maolalaigh, R. Scottish Gaelic in Twelve Weeks (2008) Birlinn ISBN 978-1-84158-643-4
2. ^ Thomson, D. (ed.) The Companion to Gaelic Scotland (1994) Gairm ISBN 1-871901-31-6

External links

• Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic at Ethnologue