Feb
I really need help on my report on the united kingdom.one of my topics are languages.please tell me the answer soon!
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Welsh people talk welsh and sometimes English. Irish talk gaelic and mostly english and the scottish just speak mostly english with a cool accent!
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In Scotland we talk English, in the Scottish Highlands they also talk Gaelic and something called Doric which I know nothing about, but here in the Lowlands we originally spoke Scots - also known as the Mither Tongue (Mother Tongue). For those who don't believe Scots is a language, most of Robert Burns' poetry is written in it.
In Ireland they speak English, and their own Gaelic, called Erse.
In Wales they talk English and Welsh.
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Ireland isn't in the UK but anyway. . .
Us Irish talk English but we originally spoke Irish, in some areas (e.g. conemara) people still speak Irish daily. And we do it in school everyday.
Scottish people talk English but Im not too sure if they have their own original language,
The Welsh speak English but originally they spoke Welsh and as far as I know They still learn the language but talk English as their first language.
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English is the majority language in all three says, there are also languages like Chinese, Pashtun, Urdu etc, that have been introduced by ethnic communities.
However the Welsh, Irish and Scots all have indigenous languages. All three languages are related, often referred to as “P” and “Q” Celtic languages. The ideal example to illustrate this is - “Ap” in Welsh, “Mc” and “Mac” in Scottish and Irish, all mean “Son of” (as in the names “Ap Morgan”, “McNeil”, “McCormack” etc). Welsh, Cornish and Breton (in northern France) are all “P” languages and Irish, Scottish and Manx (From the Isle of man) are all “Q”
The Scottish language descended from Irish (Scotland was colonised by Irish settlers from Ulster- the Scotti were a northern Irish tribe). Later, Scottish settlers returned to Ulster and introduced Scottish to the area.
Irish has a Norse (Viking) influence as it was colonised by the Vikings while Wales wasn’t. However, Welsh has a Latin (Roman) influence as Wales was part of the Roman Empire.-
A lot of the Welsh and Irish words concerning religion are simmilar- Christianity entered Wales while under Roman influence and then was exported to Ireland. For example, the Welsh word for “Church” is “Eglwys” and Irish is “Eglais”- coming from the Latin “Egaster”)
There were other languages too, Cornish was simmilar to Welsh and Manx (from the Isle of man) simmilar to Irish and Scottish, however, both languages are effectively extinct, as no native speakers exist. There were other dialects such as pictish (From Northern Scotland) and Cumbrian (North west England) that also existed, but fell out of use over the centuries and no longer exist.
I've avoided using the native terms for the languages in the above to reduce confusion.
However Welsh is “Cymraeg”, Irish “Gaelic”, Isle of man “Manx”, Cornish “Kernower”, Scots “Gaelic”
Jean-Michele is right about the Shetland and Orkney, dialects- I'd forgotton about them (and don't know a great deal of them)
He's also right about Welshman and a Breton being able to understand each other to a certain degree (both languages are “P” celtic - as is Cornish), I actually remember that a Breton chap came to study Welsh when I was at university. I'm not so sure about Gaelic though- I'm Welsh and live in Ireland, I can comprehend small amounts of Irish Gaelic but not a lot.
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Mainly English, but many are bi-lingual talking, reading and writing Cymraeg (Welsh), Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic), Gailck (Manx Gaelic), Gàidhlig (Scots Gaelic), Kernewek (Cornish) and in the far Northern Isles of Scotland two Norse based languages Shetlandic and Orcadian.
In some remote rural areas some are mono-lingual speaking only their native language, any one of those mentioned. Being Breton, my wife and I have the ability to understand most of the languages mentioned above as there are similarities to our own language, the exceptions being Shetlandic and Orcadian that are absolutely alien to us.
@ Andrew M: If I might be so bold, Erse is a generic name for the Goidelic languages, Insular Celtic, Primative Irish, Old Irish, Middle Irish, Modern Irish, Scots Gaelic and Manx. The other branch of the “Celtic” languages is Brythonic: Composing Insular Celtic, Welsh, Breton, Cumbric and Cornish.
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English is the primary language in all three of those countries. In Ireland, some people talk Irish in the Gaeltacht areas, mostly on the west coast of Ireland. Welsh people also talk welsh and some Scots speak gaelic.
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Most people in those countries talk English.
Irish people talk Gaelic and Scottish people talk a similar kind of Gaelic. Welsh people talk Welsh and people in Cornwall talk Cornish. Most of these people talk English as a first language though.
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English in all, but scots do sometimes speak Gaelic and welsh people talk Welsh.
You really need to hit the books… :/
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The answer to your question is English, but if you had all 3 in the same room they probaly would`nt understand each other because of the accents.
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Gaelic, Welsh, English…though most just speak English alone.
And it's Scottish not Scotish.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_o…
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Jean Michel has it nailed.
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gibberish, especially the welsh
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Irish, Scottish and Welsh and people in Cornwall are starting to talk Cornish