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Goidelic languages: Information from Answers.com (1629 words) |
 | Manx, the former common language of the Isle of Man, is closely akin to the Gaelic spoken in north east Ireland and the now extinct Gaelic of Galloway (in southwest Scotland), with heavy influence from Old Norse because of the Viking invasions. |
| Middle Irish, the ancestor of the modern Goidelic languages, is the name for the language as used from the 10th to the 16th century. |
| Ireland's national language is the 21st to be given such recognition by the EU and previously had the status of a treaty language. |
| Gaelic / Goidelic - Language Directory (361 words) |
| Goidelic languages were once restricted to Ireland, but in the 6th century Irish colonists and invaders began migrating to Scotland and eventually assimilated the Brythonic language speakers who lived there. |
| Manx, the former common language of the Isle of Man, is descended from the Gaelic spoken in north east Ireland and the now extinct Gaelic of Galloway (Scotland), with heavy influence from Old Norse because of the Viking invasions. |
| Goidelic languages may once have been common on the Atlanic coast of Europe and there is some evidence that they were spoken in the region of Galicia in modern Spain. |
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