Classical Gaelic

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Classical Gaelic
Spoken in: Scotland
Language extinction: 18th century (replaced by Modern Gaelic)
Language family: Indo-European
 Celtic
  Insular Celtic
   Goidelic
    Classical Gaelic 
Writing system: Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: ghc

 

Classical Gaelic was a Goidelic variant used as a literary language in Scotland from the 13th to the 18th century. Ethnologue gives the name "Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic" (and the ISO/DIS 639-3 code ghc) as a cover term for Classical Gaelic and Early Modern Irish.

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