Deeside Gaelic
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| Deeside Gaelic | |
|---|---|
| Aberdeenshire Gaelic | |
| Scottish Gaelic:GàidhligShrath Deathain | |
| Region | Aberdeenshire |
| Extinct | 18 March 1984, with the death of Jean Bain |
Indo-European
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Early forms | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | gd |
| ISO 639-2 | gla |
| ISO 639-3 | gla |
| Glottolog | scot1245 |
  Braemar Inverey Tullich Glen Muick Strathdon Crathie Strathspey | |
Deeside Gaelicis an extinct dialect ofScottish Gaelicspoken inAberdeenshireuntil 1984.[1]Unlike a lot of extinct dialects of Scottish Gaelic, it is relatively well attested. A lot of the work pertaining to Deeside Gaelic was done by Frances Carney Diack,[2][3]and was expanded upon by David Clement, Adam Watson[4]and Seumas Grannd.[5]
Decline
[edit]In Aberdeenshire, 18% ofCrathieandBraemarand as much as 61% inInvereywere bilingual in 1891.[6]By 1984, the dialect had died out.
Features in Deeside Gaelic
[edit]In the mid-20th Century the Scottish Gaelic Dialect Survey was undertaken when there were still people who spoke Deeside Gaelic. Features of Deeside Gaelic include:
- dropping of unstressed syllables; an example of this is the Word "Duine" becoming "duin'"[7]
- weakening of the /o/ to a /u/ sound, words such as "Dol" being pronounced closer to "Dul"[8]
- slendernnbeing pronounced like an Englishng[9]
- mutation offinstead of being dropped is pronounced as a /v/ or /b/ or /p/ inSpeyside[10]
- dropping of -adh, words such as tuilleadh being recorded astull[11]
- conditional final stop; conditional tense was realised as a /g/ or /k/ sound in Braemar[12]
- shortening of words; words such as agaibh being pronounced closer to "aki" and cinnteach being shortened to cinnt[13]
References
[edit]- ^"Gaelic in the North East | The School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture | The University of Aberdeen".www.abdn.ac.uk.
- ^"Papers of and relating to Francis Carney Diack - Archives Hub".archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk.
- ^King, Jacob."A (re-)examination of the work of F. C. Diack (1865-1939)"– via www.academia.edu.
{{cite journal}}:Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^"Clement (David)".bill.celt.dias.ie.
- ^"Grannd (Seumas)".bill.celt.dias.ie.
- ^"Upper Deeside".aberdeenshire-gaelic.
- ^SGDS vol. 3: 360
- ^SGDS vol. 5: 689
- ^SGDS vol.2:167
- ^SGDS vol. 3: 384
- ^SGDS vol.2: 133
- ^SGDS vol.3:281
- ^SGDS vol.3: 281