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Here is an ancient burial formula in use in North Yell at St. Olav's church, even into the 18th C. Dr. Jakobsen noted it is actually in Danish:"Yurden du art

Angus MacLellan, a ploughman from South Uist, describes encountering #Perthshire #Gàidhlig when he worked there c.1889-1893 in an interview translated by John Lorne Campbell:"There was plenty of Gaelic in Perthshire

In the 1780s, the Commissioner for Wines for the King of France (acc. to this book anyway) visited Scotland and was guest of Maclean of Torloisk in #Mull @geologymull .

If it's okay with @AbiLightbody I thought I'd sharethis in English re: #Gàidhlig in #Stirlingshire,exciting plans here for a museum in Fionn Treabh (Fintry) that will hopefully include Gaelic!Though Gaelic

I'm quite interested in the idea of Celtic languages - Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, also Welsh, Cornish, Breton etc being spoken in towns & cities as opposed to rural areas.

I've been trying for some time to get a better understanding of the #Gàidhlig speaking Scottish diaspora in the USA, historically. I've been fortunate to get ahold of this great

@FunkyPlaid A note on a writing master at the Royal High School, Edinburgh:"MacLure was an eccentric person. He fought at the battle of Falkirk in 1746, but in what military

I saw a Cherokee writer there saying the following:"We don't have as many fluent speakers as there should be to keep our language alive. We’re putting too much of the