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Language code: gd

Technical information about ISO 639 language code gd

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The table below provides technical details for the Scottish Gaelic language, designated by the gd code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

gd

Name

Official

Scottish Gaelic

Native

Gàidhlig

Family
Celtic
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Northern Scottish GaelicCentral Scottish GaelicSouthern Scottish Gaelic
Related languages
IrishManx
Key facts
Written with the Latin alphabet using 18 core lettersMarks long vowels with grave accents, unlike Irish which uses acute accentsFeatures initial consonant lenition and broad/slender consonant contrastsDefault sentence order is Verb–Subject–ObjectTraditional numeral system was vigesimal (base-20).
Sample phrase

Halò, ciamar a tha thu?

Character encodings

ISO 8859-14, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

Scottish Gaelic belongs to the Indo-European language family, more precisely to the Celtic subgroup. It is primarily used in Scotland (United Kingdom) and in parts of Nova Scotia (Canada). It is written using the Latin script (Scottish Gaelic alphabet). It is estimated that there are more than 60,000 speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

United Kingdom

57K

Canada

2K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Scottish Gaelic speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

Related locale codes

gd-GB – Scottish Gaelic (United Kingdom)

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