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Cultures:Japanese,Gaelic,Celtic,Irish,Dutch,German,French, and many more from the East Hemisphere.
This is a brief review of my Gaelic heritage:
The Goidelic languages are one of the two branches of the Insular Celtic languages, the other consisting of the Brythonic languages. Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from the south of Ireland through the Isle of Man to the north of Scotland. There are three modern Goidelic languages: Irish (Gaeilge), Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), and Manx (Gaelg).
Classical Gaelic, otherwise known as Early Modern Irish, was used as a literary language in Ireland and in Scotland from around the year 1200 until the 18th century, and was the sociolect of educated elite. As these during the 1600s, 1700s and 1800s either emigrated or became anglicised, the regional dialects started coming to the fore, with divergence of the traditional orthography to these. However, most orthographic divergence has been held to a minimum through standardisation into pluricentric diasystems with a certain amount of freedom to represent regional forms, be these spelling variants (e.g. ciad vs ceud in Scotland, Classical Gaelic céad "hundred"), or vocabulary or idiomatic variants. The Manx orthography introduced in the 1500s and 1600s was based on English and Welsh practice, however was never widely in use, as the educated elite were of Anglo-Norman descent at the time. A similar spelling system was in some use in Scotland, however never took hold.
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