scottish gaelic (fwd)

[Andrew Carnie]

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Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 22:26:23 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Caoimhin P. ODonnaile" <caoimhin at smo.uhi.ac.uk>
To: CELTLING at mitvma.mit.edu
Cc: john.macisaac at ns.sympatico.ca
Subject: Re: scottish gaelic (fwd)


Laurel MacIsaac said:

> I am hoping that somebody will be able to help me to get some
> information on the phonetics, rhythm, intonation and accent of the
> Scottish Gaelic language.  I am a university student in the process of
> finishing a project comparing gaelic and french.

The best place to start might be the various articles in the
"Companion to Gaelic Scotland" edited by Derek Thomson.
This is a sort of one-volume "encyclopedia".

There's a Gaelic course through French at:

   http://www.cena.dgac.fr/~sagnier/cours_ig.htm

but this is Irish Gaelic, not Scottish.

Caoimhin