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**insightmike** · 06-30-2009, 12:26 AM

You mean there aren't any Gaelic-speaking communities left in Scotland in our day and age? I am shocked, because I've always heard different.

Yes, there are. Mostly out on the western islands and up north. But the clue was in "a Gaelic-speaking peasant community in mainland Scotland in the here and now". Peasants is just daft, what with evolving into the working class, and Gaelic is very much a fringe language, so there's unlikely to be such a community slap bang in the middle of Scotland.

06-30-2009, 12:26 AM	#8
insightmike Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 529 Senior Member	You mean there aren't any Gaelic-speaking communities left in Scotland in our day and age? I am shocked, because I've always heard different. Yes, there are. Mostly out on the western islands and up north. But the clue was in "a Gaelic-speaking peasant community in mainland Scotland in the here and now". Peasants is just daft, what with evolving into the working class, and Gaelic is very much a fringe language, so there's unlikely to be such a community slap bang in the middle of Scotland.
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