erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’m pretty sure there’s not a single word for it. In Scotland, the indigenous langauge, Gaelic, suffered for a long time in the past from a programme of attempted eradication. In recent decades there has been a big effort made to restore it, but the main body responsible www.gaidhlig.scot/en/our-work/ doesn’t seem to use any particular word or phrase to describe their work.
blunderworld@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’m an outsider, so apologies if this is an ignorant question. But didn’t the Gaelic culture appear in Scotland because of settlement from what is now Ireland? Wouldn’t the indigenous language of Scotland be some form of Brittonic, spoken by the Picts for example?