Gaelic translation services
The Gaelic languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx) form a main branch of the Insular Celtic languages. These three languages can be unified under the Old Irish name of Goideleg (an adaptation of the word Goidel which means "pirate, raider" in Old Welsh). Three names have derived from this term, one for each of the three neighbouring peoples speaking slightly different forms of Gaelic (the Irish, the Scots and the inhabitants of the Isle of Man). Subsequently, the three slightly different forms of the language are called Gaeilge in Irish, Gaelg in Manx, and Gàidhlig in Scottish Gaelic.
Gaeilige, or Irish, is Ireland’s official language, along with English. Nowadays there are less than 200,000 speakers of Irish worldwide. The progressive decline of the Irish language was due to the English oppression but mostly to the Famine of 1840s and the emigration that followed as an expected effect.
Gàidhlig or Scottish Gaelic is spoken by about 60,000 people in the north and west of Scotland. Gaelg or Manx is practically extinct as there are only 2,000 people who still use it on a daily basis.
Luckily, the determinate efforts of linguists and historians to help people rediscover this old language make the revival of Gaelic seem an achievable goal.
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