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Galwegian Gaelic (also known as Gallovidian Gaelic, Gallowegian Gaelic, or Galloway Gaelic) is an extinct dialect of Scottish Gaelic formerly spoken in southwest Scotland. It was spoken by the people of Galloway and Carrick until the early modern period .
Margaret McMurray (died 1760) appears to have been one of the last native speakers of a Lowland dialect of Scottish Gaelic in the Galloway variety. [1]In The Scotsman of 18 November 1951 appeared the following letter, which had originally been printed in the Daily Review in 1876:
Of Galloway (disambiguation) Of, or pertaining to, Galloway , Scotland, or to its historic people, language and culture. Galwegian Gaelic , extinct dialect of Galloway , Scotland
A report of the Secretary of State in 1871 sums up the prevailing view of the period: "The Gaelic language … decidedly stands in the way of the civilization of the natives making use of it". In 1872 Scotland moved for the first time to a compulsory, state-directed and state-funded system of education covering the entire country.
According to Galloway, some words in Halkomelem "encapsulate the whole knowledge of the culture." The language has a rich oral literature which shows a whole way of looking at the universe that is different from that of English or other European languages. [citation needed] From 1984, he worked on the Samish dialect of Northern Straits Salish.
There are two main historical theories concerning the origin and development of the Gaelic languages from a Proto-Celtic root: the North Atlantic-based Insular Celtic hypothesis posits that Goidelic and Brythonic languages have a more recent common ancestor than Continental Celtic languages, while the Q-Celtic and P-Celtic hypothesis posits ...
Galloway (Scottish Gaelic: Gall-Ghàidhealaibh [ˈkal̪ˠaɣəl̪ˠu]; Scots: Gallowa; Latin: Gallovidia) [1] is a region in southwestern Scotland comprising the historic counties of Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire.
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