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Preferred term

glaGaelic  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Canadian Gaelic or Cape Breton Gaelic , locally just Gaelic or The Gaelic, refers to the dialects of Scottish Gaelic that have been spoken continuously for more than 200 years on Cape Breton Island and in isolated enclaves on the Nova Scotia mainland. To a lesser extent the language is also spoken on nearby Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Glengarry County in present-day Ontario and by emigrant Gaels living in major Canadian cities such as Toronto. At its peak in the mid-19th century, Gaelic, considered together with the closely related Irish language, was the third most spoken language in Canada after English and French. The language has sharply declined since that period, however, and is now nearly extinct. Recently, efforts have been made to revitalise the language.

Entry terms

  • Canadian Gaelic
  • Gaelic, Scottish
  • Scottish Gaelic

ISO 639-1 code

  • gd

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • gla

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • gla

ISO 639-3 code

  • gla

Notation

  • gla

In other languages

  • gaélique

    French

  • Gaélique canadien
  • gaélique écossais
  • Schottisches Gälisch

    German

  • Kanadisch-Gälische Sprache
  • gaelico scozzese

    Italian

  • Lingua gaelica canadese
  • gaélico escocês

    Portuguese

  • gaélico escocés

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/gla

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