: You mean the Scots gave the Irish Gζlic, right? All of
: the Gallic peoples, the Celtic tribes from present day
: France through the British Isles, spoke a dialect of
: Gζlic. The only true Celts remaining today to speak it
: happen to be in Scotland and Irland, but the main
: island of present-day England, Wales, and Scotland
: definitely had that language.
Gaelic, as a branch of the basic Celtic tongue, was indeed brought to Scotland from Ireland. The original Celtic inhabitants of the isle of Britain (such as the Picts) developed another branch, which survives in Welsh and Cornish. (From what I remember from my high school report, the Welsh branch tends to have harder and non-voiced consonants.)
The Scotii--the Romanized form of their name, of course--were originally an Irish tribe. They settled in what would later be Scotland, mixed with the Picts, and bequeathed their name and their language to the land. Which is why Scots speak Gaelic but the Welsh don't.
--Silicon"Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch"Dream
