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Gaelic language mate. It's not recognised as a language in the UK.

• microcolonel 6y ago
  Neither is Middle Norse, but go up north an you'll hear some.
  • foobar_ 6y ago
    Except this is older and native to Britain.
    • deleted 6y ago
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    • DonaldFisk 6y ago
      It isn't really. Gaelic came from Ireland to Scotland around 500AD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Scottish_Gaelic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Scottish_Gaelic Oh, is e Albannach a tha annam, tha beagan Gaidhlig agam, ach chan eil mi fileanta ann.
      • foobar_ 6y ago
        Oh I'm not scottish ... always thought gaelic languages were native to the islands but not recognised. Glad to see thats not the case. There are not many cultural references to it ... I came across it from the movie - Million Dollar Baby.
  • DonaldFisk 6y ago
    It's influenced the Shetland dialect of Scots, but Norn, a direct descendant of Old Norse, died out 170 years ago.
    • goodcanadian 6y ago
      There are a great many words of Norse origin in modern English. Wikipedia has a few listed though it was my understanding the the influence was extensive: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Old_Norse_origin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Old...
• DonaldFisk 6y ago
  It is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_Language_(Scotland)_Act_2005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaelic_Language_(Scotland)_Act...