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Scottish Gaelic may be more correctly known as Highland Gaelic to distinguish it from the now defunct Lowland Gaelic. Lowland Gaelic was spoken in the southern regions of Scotland prior to the introduction of Lowland Scots. There is... no evidence of a linguistic border following the topographical north-south differences. Similarly, there is no evidence from placenames of significant linguistic differences between, for example, Argyll and Galloway. Dialects on both sides of the Straits of Moyle linking Scottish Gaelic with Irish are now extinct.
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Scottish Gaelic may be more correctly known as Highland Gaelic to distinguish it from the now defunct Lowland Gaelic. Lowland Gaelic was spoken across southern Scotland in varying degrees. It was most common in Galloway, where extensive settlement from the Norse/Gaelic communities of the Isles and highland seaboard had taken place in the wake of Scottish conquest. Elsewhere, it was the language of a significant proportion of the elite that governed communities that spoke either the 'native' Brythonic language of the region or the Old English that had greatly increased in significance since the Northumbrian conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries. By the end of the Middle Ages, Lowland Gaelic had largely been replaced by the Middle English/Lowland Scots
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Scottish Gaelic — called Gàidhlig in Gaelic — is the native Celtic language of Scotland. It is the direct descendant of the Old Gaelic which was brought to what is now Scotland from Ireland around the fifth century
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