Re: Gaelic thing

From: agricola [mailto:agricola@MAILSTATION.COM]

> Yscreus il C. Grandsire:
>
> > Bethisad IIRC). But Romance conlangs with a strong Celtic
> > substrate are indeed well-known (the so-called
> > "Brito-Romance" branch of the Romance languages that exist
> in Ill Bethisad). I know about Brithenig, Kernu and
> Breathanach (with Welsh, Cornish and Irish substrate
> respectively. I don't know of any Romance language with a
> Manx or Scottish Gaelic substrate ;))))) ).
>
> No one has yet claimed Man; but I suspect it's Kemrese. Or at
> least, hotly contested over the centuries. It seems too good
> to let the Scots have it, since it's nicely placed midway
> between Kemr and her first colony (Ireland).
I've sort-of claimed it, but only so far as saying that Manx
Gaelic is still spoken on Man and it's perfectly intelligible
to other Gaelic speakers, if a bit, um, provincial. In Ill
Bethisad, there was no divergence of Gaelic*.

I'm thinking 28% speak Gaelic as their first language with
65% being Brithenig speakers and the rest being a mix of
other languages.

* For the record, I'm thinking of stealing some of the ideas
  for Unified Gaelic from the discussions on Celticonlang. Not
  wholesale though, just enough to give me an idea of what the
  unified language in Ill Bethisad might have ended up like.

K.