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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Henno Brandsma</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:hennobrandsma@hetnet.nl">hennobrandsma@hetnet.nl</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Language use" 2009.07.07 (04) [EN]<br><br></span><blockquote style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" type="cite">
From: Elsa Primo <<a href="mailto:elsa_primo@yahoo.com" target="_blank">elsa_primo@yahoo.com</a>><br> Subject: Looking for Scots speakers from Inverness<br><br>Our
family was a Graham from the Inverness area. They did not speak English
according to the family historian and his recollections of family
lore.. Would that be a version of Scots?<br></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I'd
say (from the Highlands context) it would have been Scots Gaelic that
they would have spoken, which was for a long time the dominant language
there. Now the Gaelic speakers are motly concentrated on the Western
Isles (I've heard it spoken at Skye, e.g.). A Celtic language, close to
Irish Gaelic.</span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></div><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><div>
Henno Brandsma</div><div>(the Netherlands)</div></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" lang="NL">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Language use<br><br>Elsa,<br><br>I go along with our Henno. Gaelic would be my pick as well.<br><br>Even these days, Inverness (Gaelic <i>Inbhir Nis</i>, pronounced roughly like "In yir NEESH") still has a significant number of Gaelic speakers. But it is the fastest growing city of Europe, which probably means that the percentage of Gaelic speakers is going down.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">As Henno said, the language is closely related to Irish (<i>Gaeilge</i>). In fact, its ancestor </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">came</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> from Ireland (which means that it is </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">not</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> the original language of Scotland, contrary to popular assumption).</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Read more:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Gaelic: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/gaidhlig-info.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/gaidhlig-info.php</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Irish: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/irish-intro.php">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/irish-intro.php</a></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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