: 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.
Then how did the Germans speak it as a common language in Northern Europe and the Romans have knowledge of it? After all, Gζlic has an uncany resemlance to Gallic.
