The Celtic Languages

Today's video is all about the Celtic Language family!
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Achaidh Cheide - Celtic by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
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As many viewers have noted, there are some pronunciation problems with the Irish samples in the video. Click here for a mini-video containing new and improved Irish audio samples with more authentic pronunciation:

[@tziuriky86]

I'm a Sardinian living in Ireland.. once I expressed my interest on learning Gaelic to my Irish landlord, and he got so mad that he almost insulted me, literally calling Irish Gaelic "rubbish". He went on stating that his children better don't waste time learning Irish, and that they should spend that time learning French, just in case they travel to France on holidays one day! It was really depressing! Recently, some customers in a restaurant in Cork, Ireland, complained about an employee who was speaking Gaelic, so the restaurant manager forbid all employees to speak Gaelic, despite it's the Official language of the Republic of Ireland! Sooo depressing!

[@menelise]

I was born in Wales, but was not allowed to speak or learn my own language druing the 1950s. As an adult, now living outside Wales, I have tried to learn Welsh, but find it difficult. I feel a great loss at not having my own language and instead having had to use English instead.

[@angharadhafod]

I speak Welsh.

[@martagarciapuig4527]

Hello! I am Catalan, but I have been living in Ireland (Dublin) for two years now. Even if no one speaks Irish in Dublin, I have been studying Irish since I arrived in Ireland and I love it! I will always defend it because I think it deserves all our support. If we don't defend it, it won't survive and I don't want it to go extinct. As a native speaker of a minority language (Catalan) I am very sympathetic towards Irish gaelic. Is breá liom Gaeilge!!!

[@IwanScience]

I speak Welsh, it is my first language. I do speak it outside of school. I think that being able to speak Welsh is part of my culture. It is important as it is part of my social culture and can benefit me in the sense that knowing 2 different languages will benefit my way of thinking.

[@izoldguegan9337]

I'm a Breton native speaker. Thank you for your video! I have been raised in Breton and sent to a Breton school as well. I use the language in my daily life (so many parts of the Internet have been translated to Breton over the past years), with my friends and family. I do not imagine my life without this language. Even though French has became the dominating language in Brittany, the Breton language is now a reason of pride while it used to be a reason of shame during the two past centuries. I want to be optimistic, seeing the growing number of people learning the language and the development of Breton in the public spaces. The biggest threat to the Breton language is now, in my opinion, no longer the French language, but rather the way it can be taught. Teaching a language is not enough to save it (see the example of Latin). It has to live in the lives of people on a daily basis :-)

[@lokstreet4576]

I come from Brittany. I understand few cornish or welsh words because our own celtic languages have similar brythonic roots. For exemple, to say "Merry Christmas" in Brittany, we say "Nedeleg Laouen". In Cornwall it say "Nadelik Lowen" and in Wales it say "Nadolig Llawen". We have to fight to keep our languages alive.

[@BeefGeneral]

I'm irish and live in Australia now. I met a Breton French man and was surprised to find out he felt strong ties to Ireland and had learned some Gaeilge himself!

[@imladris9550]

I am a native Welsh speaker from North Wales. All of my family and most of my local community speak Welsh. I find it very valuable to speak Welsh because it's a vital part of my life, the community I live in and the history of Wales. "Cenedl heb iaith yw cenedl heb galon" (A nation without a launguage is a nation without a heart). I very much hope the Welsh language survives and thrives in the years to come and that we'll meet the goal of a million Welsh seakers by 2050 set out by the Welsh government.

[@JohnMacbeth]

I'm Cornish, can say it's being taught in schools again here thankfully.

[@stiofanocathmhaoil2318]

I'm a fluent Irish speaker from Belfast and I speak Irish everyday outside the education system.

[@HeavenlyEchoVirus]

Unfortunately it isn't that these languages are simply "dying off." They were actively suppressed for centuries, along with all sorts of cultural practices, and people were punished for using their own languages. Even now, the culture is such that these languages are often put down, and the difficulty in trying to use them more broadly helps reinforce the original colonial attempt to wipe them out. It is really a lot like the policies in Canada that tried to totally wipe out First Nations languages and cultures.

[@Master_Blackthorne]

As an English speaker, I want the Celtic languages to increase.

[@johndeclan69]

Haven’t seen many Scots in the comments so here’s my take: I speak English as my first language and speak almost fluent Scottish Gaelic. I am aware that in the Highlands and Hebrides it is quite common to speak Gaelic but living in a large(ish) city, where most of the Scottish population is, I truly never hear it around. Scottish Gaelic truly is a beautiful language and it deeply disheartens me to see it die out. If the government does not even try to save it, it is already dead

[@justinschicker8424]

I love how extinction basically comes from, “no, my language is better. I don’t want to learn yours.”

[@RedPC4857]

Even though I don't know any of these languages, and only speak Arabic, English and French, PLEASE people who speak any Celtic languages PLEASE do not let it go extinct. Teach it to your children or your class, or family and impress your friends by saying a sentence in Gaelic so you can teach them. TBH, Celtic is a very beautiful language, and the culture intrigues me. I wish to learn in later years, from anyone who sees this comment.

[@gruffyddhuws9900]

I speak welsh and speak it with my family and most lf my friends. It is definately one of the most valuable things we have in Wales (Cymru)🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

[@justcarcrazy]

Don't let the Celtic languages die!

[@stevealferenc3554]

When I travelled to Llanfairengogogoch in 2010, the whole town was speaking Welsh, everyone on the streets of all ages, and English was only used when we approached them in English.