Gaelic

Overview Of The Gaelic Language Family

The Gaelic Languages or Goidelic Languages are a group of interrelated but mutually unintelligable languages spoken in Scotland and Ireland, and are descended from the Proto-Celtic languages of the language family. The modern Goidelic languages are Irish, Scottish and Manx.

An Irish woman singing the famous traditonal ballad The Lay of ëÇýìơìÆ

The Goidelic languages are unique in world history in that they are the only known language that in its spoken form can be properly pronounced only while gargling curdled goats milk, and written only by hitting a keyboard with a dead fish. They are particularly difficult to learn as a second language as a result, given that the written form of Gaelic bears absolutely no resemblance to spoken Gaelic at all. Take for example the name of the famous Irish hero CúĥÇħãeĺl☻Ɲ, which is counterintuitively pronounced "Ned".

Traditional academic attitude toward the Goidelic Language Family