gaelic

can anyone still speak it
johno sound irish to me

but i was pissed when we spoke

Gaelic is from the original Celts who settled and is Goedelic

Did they settle or was it a cultural invasion from La Tene (Lakeside home in what is now Switzerland)

Intherain wrote:

Gaelic is from the original Celts who settled and is Goedelic

Did they settle or was it a cultural invasion from La Tene (Lakeside home in what is now Switzerland)

The Gaelic language was introduced to Scotland by settlers from Ireland, probably in the 4th century.[12][13]

Scottish Gaelic itself developed after the 12th century, along with the other modern Goidelic languages. Scottish Gaelic and its predecessors became the language of the majority of Scotland after it replaced Cumbric, Pictish and in considerable areas Old English.[14] There is no definitive date indicating how long Gaelic has been spoken in today's Scotland, though it has been proposed that it was spoken in its ancient form in Argyll before the Roman period.[15] No consensus has been reached on this question; however, the consolidation of the kingdom of Dál Riata around the 4th century, linking the ancient province of Ulster in the north of Ireland and western Scotland, accelerated the expansion of the language, as did the success of the Gaelic-speaking church establishment, started by St Columba, and place-name evidence shows that Gaelic was spoken in the Rhinns of Galloway by the 5th or 6th century.[citation needed] The language was maintained by the trade empire of the Lordship of the Isles, which continued to control parts of Ulster until the 16th century.

Goiedelic Celtic was spoken by the peoples of what is now the Strathclyde area. There is evidence that these tribes moved south and West. There is evidence of place names in Wales, even though modern Welsh is a Brythonic tongue, both subs being part of the Indo_European set. There is a very interesting paper you would probably be interested in, by prof Colin renfrew "Archaeology & Language". ite fascinating.