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Gaelic is today a minority language in Scotland, but it was once spoken far more widely. What are the true origins of Scottish Gaelic and how prominent was it? Was it really the result of Irish migration in the early medieval period, or does it have a far older place in Scotland? What was it's relation to Celtic, Brythonic and Pictish? All this and more is explained as the ethno-linguistic situation in Northern Britain is examined from the Neolithic to the modern era.
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