Scottish language

Accents are essential for worldbuilding, can make a very defining trait for characters, and are just part of making your book more realistic. I have been fascinated with accents since I was a child and I've been imitating them for years to the amusement of even some of the native speakers. But accents are also tricky to write. You don't want to butcher an accent and disrespect the speaker or sound inauthentic, or sometimes you want to write an accent and you just have no idea how to start…

Some phrases in Scottish Gaelic - common greetings & at the table. Most of the phrases are from the book "Everyday Gaelic" by Morag MacNeill

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The Scots Language Today we will be finding out all about the Scots language. Although Gaelic was, and still is spoken, throughout the Highlands and Islands, the Scots language was mostly used by the Lowland population. Robert Burns - Scotland's National Poet Today the language exists mostly as a dialect where colloquialisms or 'slang' is used in conjunction with the English language.

Scottish Gaelic features in my Once & Future Series. Here are some interesting facts about Scottish Gaelic.

The Celtic languages are a group of related languages which form a branch of the Indo-European language family. They were once the dominant language grouping in Britain and Ireland and all descend from a common ancestor called Proto-Celtic. Irish , Manx and Scottish Gaelic are Goidelic languages and Welsh, Breton and Cornish are Brythonic languages. Manx and Cornish were once extinct but now revived due to local efforts, although the number of speakers of each number in the low hundreds.