Àdhamh Ó Broin - GÀILIG LATHARN “the Gaelic dialect of SW Caithness”

Often regarded as having no Gaelic heritage at all, Caithness is spoken of as being very strictly “Norse”, when it fact, the western half of the county boasted two distinct Gaelic dialects, northern and southern, with locally born and bred people able to produce words and phrases of them into the present century. Your speaker will discuss the language of his mother’s people, MacLeods, Gunns and Sutherlands who hailed from a tiny 6 mile stretch of coast and its interior glens between Dunbeath and Forse and are noted en masse in census returns into the 20th century as being native Caithness Gaels. Their language was something of an isolate, quite distinct from its MacKay Country and East Sutherland neighbours, and so our time will be spent outlining the dialect’s salient features, considering interesting hyper-local words and reading aloud a passage of revived Latheron Gaelic for your delectation, making this perhaps the first time the dialect has been heard spoken at length in over 50 years. ScottishGaelic.scot The Language Event Join us at: TheLanguageEvent.com fb.com/TheLanguageEvent fb.com/groups/TheLanguaageEventEdinburgh fb.com/groups/TheLanguageEventAuckland fb.com/groups/ThelanguageEventMelbourne twitter.com/PolyglotMeetup instagram.com/TheLanguageEvent Polyglot Conference Join us at: PolyglotConference.com fb.com/PolyglotConference fb.com/groups/PolyglotConference twitter.com/Polyglot_Confer instagram.com/PolyglotConference Filming & Editing: Simos Batzakis If you sign up for italki using this link you will get $10 FREE towards your first lesson: http://go.italki.com/polyglotconference