Scotland: Gaelic in the Hebrides (Part 4/4)
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- čas přidán 19. 01. 2014
- In their last instalment on Scotland, the Vagabrothers sail to the remote Outer Hebrides in search of something many don't know exist - and find something much different altogether.
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Gaelic isn't just in the Hebrides! I'm from Caithness (North East Mainland) and I come from a family where only Gaelic is spoken, haha. I study in Edinburgh and it's actually surprising the amount of people from the South East I've come across who also speak it. It's an optimistic sign. Bring back the Gaelic!
Charlotte McCann amen!!!
In the past Scottish Gaelic was spoken as south as Lowlands!
+Charlotte McCann +vagabrothers I am from Philadelphia, PA and I am studying Gaelic now!!!! determined to be fluent in the next few years and loved connecting with my ancient ancestry when I was there visiting a few weeks ago! Love Gaelic!
+vagabrothers You should've checked out Tulloch Castle in Dingwall when you were in Inverness, four poster bedrooms for the price of a Travelodge, and haunted as hell. And the barman speaks Gaelic.
Preserve Gaelic with your lives. It is a link to your heritage. Protect it and grow it, speak it and know it.
'The fields waiting for their children to come home'. Beaytiful sentiments.
I'm from Ullapool, fluent in Gaidhlig (Gaelic) and live on croft :) So cool to see you guys exploring our country. Hope you enjoyed yourselves :D
I'm from Lewis! I speak Gaelic too. It makes me really happy watching this video
cá mhéad teanga atá agat?
+Oisin O Lochlainn Bidh mi a bridhinn beurla agus Gaidhlig Albannach
Lynsey Morrison Cool, go hiontach ar fad. Tá Gaeilge agus béarla agam....Tá mé ag foghlaim na Danmhairge, tá sé deacair lol...
+Oisin O Lochlainn gur math tha leat! Tha mise a feuchainn a ionnnsachadh Greek cuideach
Lynsey Morrison IOntach sílim go bhfuil sé sin suimiúil...anyway, is deas bualadh leat, slán
We didn't forget where we came from; Cape Breton has Nova Scotia's biggest Scottish history with a Gaelic college still! My own great grandfather Angus McLean came from Northern Uist; my great grandmother from the Isle of Skye.
at the end the Gaelic speakers are saying "we love the Vagabrothers", tha gaol againn air Vagabrothers, that is sweet (I think anyway). I love the Isle of Lewis.
"The people who built these stones, the Celts."
Those standing stones were ancient to the Celts! Even to the previous Bronze Age 'Beaker' settlers too!
That is true. It's a frustrating assumption that most people make about most of the standing stones in the British Isles, that they're Celtic, when they in fact predate the Celts by millennia!
Pugweed built stones? No primordial man guy
A study of genetics suggests that the megalith culture was started by the ancient European hunter gatherers who wiped out the male farmers from turkey who had settled europe from about 4000 BC. Its like they allowed them to settle for a while and then thought, sod this lets take our land back. They were then wiped out by the Beaker people about 2500 BC who may have came from the Yamnaya people of the Eurasian step and who were also the protocelts.
@@iseultmackinnon8197 So the current leading view is that both resident Mesolithic hunter-gatherer populations and immigrant Neolithic farmers with megalithic traditions jointly participated in the construction and use of these stone circles and monuments through mixed communities.
In summary, while the earliest phases may have involved Neolithic farmers, it's likely both indigenous Western hunter-gatherer peoples and incoming Continental Neolithic groups with megalithic practices collaborated together in creating Britain's extensive ancient stone structures.
Just a small correction in a fascinating video: the Calanais stones were not erected by the Celts. They were erected by whoever was around on the islands around 5000 years ago. We don't really know who that was, but it wasn't the Celts, that much is certain.
Maybe the Picts set up the standing stones?
@@carold8308 The Picts were a Celtic tribe lol.
It would have been probably pre neolithic
As I stay currently in Scottish Highlands for a bit longer, I can see as much united they're in differences. Sense of freedom, misty landscapes and so warm -hearted people! Thank you for shared inspiration :)
I have a strong linguistic background in Germanic, Slavic and Baltic languages. One day when I was in Barnes & Nole I saw a Teach Yourself Gaelic book on the shelf, so I bought it, thinking it was Irish Gaelic. When I got home I discovered, to my disappointment, it was Scottish Gaelic, so the book collected dust on the shelf for a couple of years. Realizing since I bought the book I should read it. Thus began my journey with Gaidhlig. The spelling is a nightmare, so I've had to use CZcams videos to learn how to pronounce the words. By the way, at the end of the video you showed chan eil aon chanan gu leor. That means "one language is not enough"! What a beautiful language! Alba gu brath!!!! (Scotland forever).
Irish is even worse -- LOL!
Lúcás Ó Daimhín Alba gu brath
Glad to see the young people speaking Gaelic. I wish the people would feel a sense of pride and tradition to speak and keep the Gaelic language alive. The people at large (non-Gaelic speaking) see the Gaelic language as something valuable. It is the language of first peoples to inhabit that area. It is rich cultural heritage that should not be lost!!
It's not the language of the first people to inhabit the area, it was brought over from Ireland while the Picts were already living there
ltx their language would have been closer to Welsh if it even was a Celtic language and not something that was there earlier
@@alexmacseoin9699 It's not the first, we know about the steppe ancestries of Celts and other Europeans, we also know of the Paleo-European languages. But you're wrong about Irish invasion theory. Argyll was never Pictish.
EDIT: I would rephrase Luvvids27's argument as, it's Scots' oldest national language tradition, since sadly Pictish and Cumbric are lost to us. Languages belong to flesh and blood peoples moreso than to physical lands.
Gaelic is epic!!!!❤❤❤ from a South African Scot.
Hell the language is spoken in the streets in Ullapool and in the east coast of the Highlands.
Fearn pol I hear Gaelic in Glasgow everyday... born and raised in Glasgow and I hear it all the time.
This further reinforces my intense desire to visit this country. I love this.
I’m from Newcastle Upon Tyne in North East England and I visited the Outer Hebrides on a birdwatching holiday with the Newcastle Upon Tyne RSPB Group and visited those amazing Islands in the Spring/Summer period in 2019 and one of the highlight was the seeing the amazing machair, crofters working and hearing the Corncrake in many places on the Outer Hebrides. It was a holiday I will never forget and sadly I probably won’t get to visit the Outer Hebrides again as I will be 68 in May of this year 2020. But the Outer Hebrides is still largely unspoilt. I would have liked to have seen on this CZcams video the amazing machair, but it must have been the wrong time of the year to see the amazing colours of the machair. But this holiday in 2019 was the most amazing holiday in the UK in all my lifetime and it was a holiday I will never forget.
Gaelic is spoken in more places than the outer islands and northern Highlands. You just have to know where to look. The fact that all Gaelic speakers know English as well means that in public they'll mostly be speaking English in the streets. I have to say that it's surprising these these commentators identified the standing stones and having been erected by the Celtic ancestors. A tad bit of reading would have told them that they preceded the Celts by many centuries.
+Olentzaro haha yes... I was thinking, naw... pretty sure the Neolithic/Mesolithic people were at least 1000 years before Celts even came to Britain... But i do wander what the ancient celts thought of those stone circles, and what the interaction was like with the people of Britain they encountered. My family is all from Portugal. we have the same stone circles and Celts too, but I wonder who was there before them. and how many of them are my ancestors too!
also u can find stone circles literally all over the uk
The stone circle builders on the continent clearly had many commonalities with those in Britain. It would be interesting if we could somehow know if the circle builders had a uniform culture. Strange that the people of Galicia in northeast Spain often call themselves Celts, but their language is almost identical with Portuguese. One day I'd like someone to describe the differences between the Galician and Portuguese languages.
There are neolithic stones all over the WORLD.
My Great great grand parents immigrated to Nova Scotia from Lewis. He was a teacher and a lay minister. She was a midwife. They have descendants across North America.
It's amazing to see my home country like this. Born and live in Glasgow and I hear Gaelic a lot...
Awesome, dudes.... I love ya!! Scotland is the best.
What a lovely island.....thanks, guys! :)
I've just started studying Irish :) and it was so exciting to realize I understand the lil bits of Scottish too! The two languages really are quite similar
Loved all four parts. Brilliant! Thank you.
+deb parks thanks for watching the whole thing!
Thanks guys, that was a beautiful series.
Well done, lads - this was a pretty cool series of vids. A good reflection of Scotland.
Great show guys thank you for taking the time to visit and share this with us
Loved your Scottish tour videos, I’m from Glasgow but my family is originally from the Isle of Lewis. There is definitely so much more for you guys to see 😁
Grandmother was a morrison,ancestor came from lewis,would love to go,particularly to dun eistien!
Slàinte mhath Vagabrothers! I really enjoyed this serie on Scotland, I know it might not be in the 2017 big plan but keep putting in historical, cultural facts, you have a such nice way of doing it!
this was just awesome..feels great watching you people travel...
Beautiful documentary!
You are my best discovery on youtube!! I cannot wait to watch all your videos!
You make me dream that one day I'll also go and discover places like you do. Awesome job, guys, keep it up! :)
Thanks Chloe! Much more on the way. Glad to have you with us :)
New vagabrothers fan. Love the writing on this episode.
the Cali girl in me loves that this ended in the surf. can't wait to share this series!
Haha of course! Need to surf! Thanks for watching
Such an amazing trip and keep up the good work !!
Thanks Will!
Very cool. My mom is from Scotland and I surf. I found your video very interesting and informative. Tapadh leat.
I'm not from Scotland, nor do I speak their language, but thank you for pronouncing "Gaelic" correctly. 👍
that's super! Going to spend 5 months on exchange from Canada, at the University of Glasgow. Hope I find a Gaelic crew and get to got to the Highlands and the islands! :D thanks boys. Cheers from a fellow Westcoaster!
+acanpc333 enjoy!!
The Celts migrated to the British Isles from mainland Europe at least a thousand years AFTER Stonehenge and the many other smaller arrangements of standing stones were built.
Awesome vid guys!
Superb videos. Thanks.
Thank you John
What a superb set of videos! Great to see an open-minded, sensitive approach to travel. You guys should come back and do the North Coast 500. Scenery and vibe even more awesome than you've already seen!
Love Skerryvore, just bought all of their albums!!! Thank you for showing me them. Rock, folk, bagpipes, there is nothing better!!! Keep up the great videos guys, I've watched all of your UK tours now I think. What's up next?
Neale's photography page The Peatbog Fairies and Shooglenifty are great too.
Good film guys, enjoyed watching and sharing a laugh. Hope your film inspires people to visit our lovely country and by the way. I'll be voting Yes
Thanks Norrie! We love Scotland!
thank you.
amazing, I came across your channel from jacks gap, I love living in Scotland. Keep up the good work, give me a shout if you are ever back in Edinburgh!
This is obviously a low budget thing from a couple of lads, but honestly great work boys. I got Goosebumps at the end, very nice attitude you went in with and made a nice wee video. Respect.
Soooo love Scotland❤️
Viva Gaelic🎉
My ancestory DNA came back that my granddad was from outer hebrides. Going to learn all I can, this made me tear up 😥
Excellent
Thank you
I haven't forgotten. It isn't easy to come home either. More and more want to.
My ma's mum is from Stornoway of clan MacDonald, and her father is a Mackay of the highlands, they all only spoke Gaelic at their homes, hated the english because they were forced to not speak in Gaelic and to adopt some of English culture like singing god save the Queen which my grannie always told me she fuckin hated her lol i remember stories about the blackhouse and her lamb named Suki. They all immigrated to Canada just before my mum was born, and even though I'm from Canada Scotland has always been known as home. Wish I could have been taught Gaelic to keep it alive.
There husnt been clans for 250 years mate
It’s interesting how a lot of sounds guys are so used to doing sound for rock shows, they put so much emphasis the drums. Often, the other instruments are drowned out by the drums. I’ve often been to trad shows where the traditional instruments are practically inaudible. The scene at the Skerryvor concert is a case in point.
liked and subscribed! Amazing video, and so nice to see two guys from California not acting like the typical douchbag that says oh, dude, totally, gnarly every 10 seconds
america has so many people of scottish descent it sucks that we dont have any areas were gaelic is spoken
It was still spoken a little on Prince Edward Island in Canada by my dad's aunts and uncles 30 or 40 years ago. I don't know if my generation still does. I'm not from there myself.
It's spoken in Nova Scotia,Canada🏴🇨🇦
God Bless!
I think Glasgow is the biggest Gaelic speaking area outside of the highland.Gaelic medium education is popular and there are Gaelic medium schools but there is a shortage of Gaelic speaking teachers and a high demand for school places.
it seems similar to Moroccan Berber , in Berber we say " ismino" which means "my name is" , and in Berber we say also " ismens" which means " her/his name " . in addition there are three Moroccan Berber tribes got their names from Scot clans
M'Touga ( Moroccan Berber Tribe ) ------- > MacDougall ( Scottish highland clan )
M'Ghill ( Moroccan Berber tribe ) ----------> MacGill ( from Scotland )
M'Tir ( Moroccan Berber tribe ) -----------> MacTier ( Scotland )
M' of the Berbers which means 'sons of', and is exactly the same as the Gaelic Mac
or Mc ... do you see some similarity ? :)
+abdellah sadellah very interesting!! There definitely were Celts in North Africa.
I also thought it sounded similar to Arabic "ismi". But "is mise" (pronounced "is mishuh") means "I am" ("is" is related to English "is", "mise" to "me"). In Arabic, "ismi" means "my name (is)" and it comes from "ism" (name)... Anyway I do acknowledge it's an amazing coincidence. :)
abdellah sadellah It's definitely possible. People often think I am Middle Eastern or Traveller but I am 80% Scots and Irish. Is there a Berber equivalent for McBurney?
abdellah sadellah is it really that Berber if Arabic is 'ismi'?
Interesting. In Scotland we have a word ‘shufti’ which means to take a look. I believe there’s a similar word in Moroccan?
Reminds me of the Song of Albion trilogy and the show Monarch of the Glen.
I loathed it in school but now I am making up to it...
I constantly asked people in Stornaway if they spoke the Gaelic, and after many denials someone told me to go to the local library and there I would finally find someone who spoke it.
Sweet! 🙏
'S math sin! (just say, 'smashin') - That's so good!
Very similar to the west of Ireland
Tha mi à Alba Nuadh. We haven't forgotten.
Great doc, thanks guys! Didnt even know Scottish Gaelic was still spoken in pockets, thought only in Ireland was Celtic language still alive. Whats the band name or is there a link for them wanting to hear more and its not showing up on my music search. Slainte!
You should have gone to the broch in carloway
Wonderful video. Glè-mhath!
By the way, it was the Welsh who went to Patagonia.
+Steffan Owain Rheoli I thought about that when I heard them say that. As far as New Zealand goes, when I was on South Island I could definitely hear the Scottish influence in the English that is spoken there.
+James Hendin and in British Columbia (western most province of Canada) there is a huge Scottish presence, and the highest density of piping bands in North America :D
A lot of Welsh went to Patagonia but many scottish gaels went over as well to work the land including relatives of mine.
The word penguin is Welsh. They saw white peaks of Patagonia and called the bird just that.
lovely film x
+Maggie MacIsaac cheers Maggie! Check out our Ireland Vlog Series, you'll love it!
Maggie MacIsaac y
Overseas a lot of people want to learn Gaelic...fancy that. I have started. More music in Gaelic would help.
If you do come I recommend visiting Guinness's store house in Dublin its awsome you would really enjoy ir ☺
We've been but before we started filming. We're excited to come back out to create content :)
Pan-Celt! We are your brothers! American Irish Celts! Illinois/Colorado Celts!
we Irish are Gaels, the Celt theory is proving to be wrong. There is no evedience of the Celts of indo Europe ever coming to Ireland. The Irish today are the same people that were here 1000s of years ago, with a mix of Norse, and English thrown in
I was there and it's gods country!!
The Stones predate the Celts by 1,000 year.
I stay there
These are my islands
9.31 Argos in stirling in background.
These guys didn't bother to look at a map of where Scots Gaelic is spoken? That's scary.
Why don't they make it mandatory to learn Scottish Gaelic in schools?
Tasnim Ahmed there’s a choice, but nowadays the Gàidhlig schools have much more advanced technology and more subjects so more parents send children to Gàidhlig schools...
Are the American Scotts really welcome back or you just saying that?
It is highly unlikely that the standing stones you stood amongst were built by Celtic people. Following fairly recent DNA analysis of ancient skeletons from the period of the stone circle construction , the stone circles are now thought to be from the Neolithic period which was before Celtic people (Indo-European speaking) arrived in Western Europe.
Forgive me, I know this video is well intentioned. But the Calanais Stones were not erected by the Celts. That’s not an insignificant error.😑
im from south uist
pistastuvu nta bovatta? O iistuvu sulu u faciti i ricchiuni adduvi i masculi si vestunu i fimmina?
"Glaaaaz Goe"
Lochs Deas is loaded with Gàidhlig on Lewis.
Scotland, great North UK
Glasgow there's gaidhlig spoken . and stop calling us British!!! great video though guys.
Eek a Mouse Im from Glasgow. And I hear Gaelic here everyday! And exactly. We are Scottish. Not British.
If you're from Scotland you're British because Scotland is in Great Britain, it's like being European, it's a geographical term not political you can't choose not to be British if you were born in Great Britain
As Glasgow lies on the island of Britain, you cannot escape being geographically British. Some people confuse British with English and that is annoying. But Scots, Welsh, Manx and Cornish are British through geography and in any case the word Britain is descended from a Greek word for this island before there were any of the boundaries that exist now. So be proud to be British which you would be even if Scotland were independant.
Gaidhlig agus Gaeilge abú 🏴 🇮🇪
Don’t you live in the UK🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I'm from the islands.and I'm American..well my ancestors are..
Did I miss something, or are they saying Gaelic incorrectly? It's actually bothering me. Is it GAYlick? Or GAllick?
In English people pronounce it GAYlick, but the word in the Scots Gaelic language is Gàidhlig, which sounds more like GAlick. People also use the word Gaelic in English for the Irish and Isle of Mann languages, but people who speak them call them Irish, Manx, or Gaeilge (GAYlga) and Gaelg, respectively.
Hope that helps :)
@@colmtierney3160 Cheers mate! I initially clicked on the video because I love learning about languages, their origins, as well as efforts to reclaim dying languages, local dialects, etc. Appreciate you taking the time to answer!
Celts didn't put up dem stones bruh
Honestly, the fact that it seems that (even if the vid is eight years old by now) some of the locals are too nervous or unwilling to speak their native or old tongue, it just feels so *depressing*. Unbelievable that those people got the short end of the stick with social interactions just because of the Gaelic language.
tá dua ag baint le teanga a fhoghlaim,
Gaels are the real 2%ers
The Celts did not build these stones.
No indeed, not even their ancestors, as the stones had been standing for a thousand years by the time the Celts migrated over from mainland Europe.
Jamie Nelson There is no such race as the celts and these people did not call themselves celts.
Indeed, there are some Gaelic speakers in the Western Highlands as well as the cities of Inverness, Glasgow and Edinburgh. However, it is only on the Outer Hebrides that Gaelic speakers are not a small minority so that you can address people in Gaelic and hope to be understood. Otherewhere in Scotland, it is more or less searching for the needle in a bunch of hay.
As to Irish Gaelic, you will more often been understood across the country than speaking Scottish Gaelic across Scotland. thanks to Irish lessons at school in the Republic of Ireland, even if the outcome of the Irish lessons at school is not that good as it ought to be.
The censuses as well as surveys tell the differences, too. Scottish Gaelic has around 57.700 speakers alltogether with some 30.000 more with some skills in it. In Ireland, we have,between 50.000,and 100.000 native Irish speakers and 500.000 to 1 Million fluent and moderate skilled Irish speakers. Those with some knowledge range up to 1,8 Million on the island looking to the census of the Republic and of Northern Ireland.
Kindly, Alex
Why don't you visit Ireland
Itz Lennon Soon...
Itz Lennon because Scotland is better lol
It’s a shame I wish the whole of Scotland speak it I am lucky in a way cos I speak Scots Doric I’m from the North East where it’s widely spoken and I love my language eg: (Fit like iday ma Freen Affa Dreicht oot ere) English Translation: How are you today my friend it’s very dull out there
my daughter was made to do an extra year in school , held back a year, becuase she was caught talking, 'jibberrish'. at school. she was muttering gaelic that i was muttering to myself in the house as i tried to educate myself in private.. she now despises me muttering or trying to sing in gaelic, i am not fluent , i stopped trying to keep the gaelic alive in my house., and because it robbed her of a year of her life in education she despises hearing gaelic now.. when the education services realised it was gaelic i was very much punished. why would you speak this in the house ? if you were not taught it as a child. ?. growing up as a wee yin my nana begged me to try learn the gaelic you have to keep it alive. i tried, im still trying in private. costs some scots though. to go back to native.
Learn how to write English first, then try again with your utterly made-up story.
@@sananton2821 screenshot and shared to spread your ignorance . Happens to the irish and the Welsh aswell. * Saint Anthony *
@@sananton2821let's slap the native clean out of you till you understand what oppression feels like. Reprobate.