Deeside Gaelic

Short description: Dialect of Scottish Gaelic

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Deeside Gaelic

Aberdeenshire Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic: Gàidhlig Shrath Deathain
Region| Aberdeenshire
Extinct| 18 March 1984 with the death of Jean Bain

Language family

Indo-European

* Celtic
* Insular Celtic
* Goidelic
* Scottish Gaelic
* Deeside Gaelic

Early forms

Primitive Irish

* Old Gaelic
* Middle Gaelic
* Classical Gaelic

Language codes
ISO 639-1| `gd`
ISO 639-1| `gla`
ISO 639-3| `gla`
Glottolog| `scot1245`[1]

Braemar

Inverey

Tullich

Glen Muick

Strathdon

Crathie

Strathspey

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Deeside Gaelic is an extinct dialect of Scottish Gaelic spoken in Aberdeenshire until 1984.[2] 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,[3][4] and was expanded upon by David Clement, Adam Watson[5] and Seumas Grannd.[6]

## Decline

In Aberdeenshire, 18% of Crathie and Braemar and as much as 61% in Inverey were bilingual in 1891.[7] By 1984, the dialect had died out.

## Features in Deeside Gaelic

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'"[8]
* weakening of the /o/ to a /u/ sound, words such as "Dol" being pronounced closer to "Dul"[9]
* slender nn being pronounced like an English ng [10]
* mutation of f instead of being dropped is pronounced as a /v/ or /b/ or /p/ in Speyside[11]
* dropping of -adh, words such as tuilleadh being recorded as tull[12]
* conditional final stop; conditional tense was realised as a /g/ or /k/ sound in Braemar[13]
* shortening of words; words such as agaibh being pronounced closer to "aki" and cinnteach being shortened to cinnt [14]

## References

1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/scot1245.
2. ↑ "Gaelic in the North East | The School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture | The University of Aberdeen". https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sll/disciplines/gaelic/gaelic-in-the-north-east-325.php.
3. ↑ "Papers of and relating to Francis Carney Diack - Archives Hub". https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb231-ms2276,ms2636,ms2771.
4. ↑ King, Jacob. A (re-)examination of the work of F. C. Diack (1865-1939). https://www.academia.edu/11984186.
5. ↑ "Clement (David)". https://bill.celt.dias.ie/vol4/author.php?AuthorID=2711.
6. ↑ "Grannd (Seumas)". https://bill.celt.dias.ie/vol4/author.php?AuthorID=183.
7. ↑ "Upper Deeside". https://doug5181.wixsite.com/aberdeenshire-gaelic/services.
8. ↑ SGDS vol. 3: 360
9. ↑ SGDS vol. 5: 689
10. ↑ SGDS vol.2:167
11. ↑ SGDS vol. 3: 384
12. ↑ SGDS vol.2: 133
13. ↑ SGDS vol.3:281
14. ↑ SGDS vol.3: 281

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