Celtic Team - Study Group
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There is new Discord channel for Breton speakers and learners--check out their Twitter to get an invite: https://twitter.com/DeskinDiscord
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An Sgeulachd Ghoirid (The Short Story) is a site that's been around for many years that has a few short stories by some well-known Scottish Gaelic writers, some with audio readings and some with video commentary (alas still not subtitled), that I've used quite often in past. But I hadn't visited the site since at least before the pandemic so I panicked yesterday when the old link I have bookmarked led me to a dead page. I inquired at Foram na Gàidhlig and they provided me to with the new link:
http://www.e-storas.com/resources/short ... fault.aspx
So if anyone has the old link (http://www.ansgeulachdghoirid.com) bookmarked, you'll want to update it. And if you've never heard of this site before and you're interested in Gaelic, please, bookmark it!
Unfortunately, the new site appears updated for mobile devices, but not in the best way, and the layout is a bit messed up on a PC, but all the old content is there and still useable.
http://www.e-storas.com/resources/short ... fault.aspx
So if anyone has the old link (http://www.ansgeulachdghoirid.com) bookmarked, you'll want to update it. And if you've never heard of this site before and you're interested in Gaelic, please, bookmark it!
Unfortunately, the new site appears updated for mobile devices, but not in the best way, and the layout is a bit messed up on a PC, but all the old content is there and still useable.
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For the next two weeks, the 2019 Irish film Finky is on the TG4 website. It's been up on their site since January 1st but unfortunately I didn't know about it until last night.
https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/categories ... enre=Drama
It's not too bad in my opinion, although it relies to bit too much of negative disability tropes. The main language is Irish, but there are bits of English and a tiny bit of Scottish Gaelic (spoken by an Irish actor playing a Scottish character, so honestly it just sounded like Ulster Irish to me at first). I personally found a lot of the Irish dialogue easy to follow. Subtitles are only available in English.
It contains some heavy subject matter and does warrant a content warning for child death (implied), suicide, negative portrayals of disability and mistreatment of a disabled person.
https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/categories ... enre=Drama
It's not too bad in my opinion, although it relies to bit too much of negative disability tropes. The main language is Irish, but there are bits of English and a tiny bit of Scottish Gaelic (spoken by an Irish actor playing a Scottish character, so honestly it just sounded like Ulster Irish to me at first). I personally found a lot of the Irish dialogue easy to follow. Subtitles are only available in English.
It contains some heavy subject matter and does warrant a content warning for child death (implied), suicide, negative portrayals of disability and mistreatment of a disabled person.
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There's a new-ish Polyglot Gathering talk, 'Celtic Origins: Archaeologically Speaking' [video | text], that suggests celtic languages emerged within a bronze age trading network.
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Barry Cunliffe's 2008 lecture Who were the Celts? covers a lot of the same ground.
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Barry Cunliffe's 2008 lecture Who were the Celts? covers a lot of the same ground.
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I downloaded the paper and when I get the chance, I will read it only to see if there's anything there to support my pet theory that the Latin word argentum is actually from a Celtic word and not the other way around. All Celtic languages that I know of use a cognate of argentum to mean the same thing and it's presumed the Latin word is the origin word of all the Celtic cognates, yet no one seems to thinks it odd that we get the word for "mine (as in a silver mine)" from a Celtic word that was passed on to Vulgar Latin and then to Old French and then to English but not the word for thing being mined in those mines that made the Romans go out and conquer the Celts, because the Celts controlled it all at one time.
(I am entirely open to that possibility that argentum and its Celtic cousins all stem from an earlier IE word, rather than from one or the another, but generally, what I've found in dictionaries is the assertion the Celtic cognates stem directly from the Latin, like feasgar in Gaelic that is a Gaelicization of vesper and introduced to Gaelic much, much later, via Christianity, than when airgead more likely was, rather than from an earlier IE word.)
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Cèid Donn wrote:I am entirely open to that possibility that argentum and its Celtic cousins all stem from an earlier IE word, rather than from one or the another, but generally, what I've found in dictionaries is the assertion the Celtic cognates stem directly from the Latin
Umm, that's what the wiktionary says?
Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic/argantom
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵn̥tóm (“silver”), from *h₂erǵ- (“white, brilliant”). Cognate with Latin argentum (“silver”), Sanskrit रजत (rajata, “silver”), Old Armenian արծաթ (arcatʿ, “silver”).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstr ... c/argantom
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Actors Paul Mescal and Brendan Gleeson recently did short interviews in Irish at an awards event. I was wondering if someone here could clarify the type of Irish being spoken. Are the actors and the interviewer all speaking "Gaelscoil Irish"?
https://twitter.com/TG4TV/status/1627579864059457538
https://twitter.com/TG4TV/status/1627579864059457538
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lichtrausch wrote:Actors Paul Mescal and Brendan Gleeson recently did short interviews in Irish at an awards event. I was wondering if someone here could clarify the type of Irish being spoken. Are the actors and the interviewer all speaking "Gaelscoil Irish"?
https://twitter.com/TG4TV/status/1627579864059457538
The interviewer is a native speaker from Donegal as far as I know. The other two are learners and speak learners' Irish, so not very well in general.
It's actually caused huge uproar here and everyone's now talking about how the language is saved and stronger than ever, etc
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galaxyrocker wrote:It's actually caused huge uproar here and everyone's now talking about how the language is saved and stronger than ever, etc
I'm clearly living under a rock. (I actually mean that unsarcastically!)
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