• Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Thanks for that. My family immigrated from Scotland a billion years ago or so, and we were always told they spoke mostly Gaelic. When I look at the language map they were from the Gaelic speaking islands that I now know are part of the Goidelic language family. Scots is in the south and part of the Brittonic language family. I can see more reading ahead.

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      8 months ago

      Scots is Germanic. Brittonic is a subfamily of Celtic languages that includes Welsh and Cornish.