Gaelic in Nova Scotia

Gaelic was the official language in the original Garden of Eden.
The serpent, of course, was speaking English.
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A Selection of Common Gaelic Phrases
Courtesy Clan Ross Association: Nova Scotia

MacBain's Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language
By Alexander MacBain; first published 1896; revised edition 1911
Photolitho reprint (1911 ed.): Gairm Publications, Glasgow; 1982

Catriona Mairi MacIver: "Gaelic Can Not Die in Scotland."

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Most Highlanders who emigrated to Pictou County (long known as the "Birthplace of New Scotland"), to Colchester County and to other regions of Scottish settlement in mainland Nova Scotia came from "The North" of Scotland: from Caithness, Sutherland, Ross & Cromarty, and Inverness. They were Gaelic speaking people, often well educated from local schools of the time. Their Gaelic was different from that used in the outer islands, where education was not so readily available.

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Brian Mearns, who was active on the executive of the Clan MacKay Society in Ontario, has moved back to his ancestral home in Muie, Parish of Rogart in Sutherland. There he and his wife have established a Gaelic Learning Centre, An Ceathramh

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