Which celtic language is your favourite?

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Wiling away an afternoon researching languages and wishing I spoke more of them. I think Scottish Gallic would be my choice, it sounds like Elvish!

Scottish Gallic: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002ctqv/an-la-29052025

Irish: https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/categories/news-stories/play/?pid=6373619919112&title=Nuacht%20TG4&series=Nuacht%20TG4&genre=Cursai%20Reatha&pcode=731149

Welsh: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0lb9z9l/newyddion-s4c-thu-29-may-2025-1930

Have started to learn any? I thought it would be fun but are they on duo lingo or similar?

@Yatzydog Sc Gaelic (note the e there OP) is on Duolingo yes.

There are also still Manx and Cornish speakers out there. Not sure about Breton though.

Ah thanks for that. I never did understand the difference between Gaelic and Gallic. Is one the language and the other… something else? Or just, wrong?!

I think Gallic refers to France?

Irish (Gaeilge) is on Duolingo. One of my DDs has been doing it for about 2.5 years.

Gallic is an adjective referring to all things French.

I’m doing Welsh on Duolingo, I’m pretty sure that Irish and Gaelic/Scottish is available on there, too

"Gallic/Gahlic" is roughly how "Gaelic" is pronounced in (Scots) Gaelic.

There's a piece on Gaelic learners via Tiktok later on in the news programme linked in your OP

Manx Gaelic (Gaelg) came back from the brink and is now thriving, thank goodness. I was a teenager in the 1970s and was part of the cultural awakening.

My grandmother spoke it well as a girl, but was greatly discouraged back then.

A few of my friends are now fluent speakers and teach it alongside traditional crafts.

I'm Welsh so have to go with Welsh but I'm fascinated by kernewek (Cornish) which sounds so similar to Welsh. There's a great music artist called Gwenno who sings in both and because I'm a Welsh learner it takes me a moment to work out which language she's singing in sometimes!

Scottish Gaelic is on Duolingo but there are a lot of grammar rules with Gaelic that Duolingo doesn’t explain. There is a free online course
which is good. https://speakgaelic.scot/

I'm irish and know quite a bit of it but dh is cornish and I quite like the cornish language. I follow a Facebook page that gives a cornish word of the day and I enjoy seeing the different words and the similatirities to irish

I tried to learn Welsh with Duolingo but gave up after a couple of months. They started giving exercises before giving you the material to learn/refer to. Despite being a fairly able language learner - among others A level Russian in 3 years - I can’t learn like that!

It’s all very well saying you can learn like a child - listen, eventually understand, repeat - but children have from birth to 18 to do it! And babies’/young children’s brains are programmed to mop up languages.

Irish obvs

I’ve watched some Manx videos on YouTube and it’s very similar to Irish

Yes, it’s most similar to Irish, with similarities to Scots Gaelic.

Welsh is in a general grouping with Cornish and Breton.