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Goidelic languages
The Goidelic or Gaelic languages ((アイルランド語:teangacha Gaelacha), (スコットランド・ゲール語:cànanan Goidhealach), (マン島語:çhengaghyn Gaelgagh)) form one of the two groups of Insular Celtic languages, the other being the Brittonic languages. In the older classification, the Goidelic languages are part of the Q-Celtic group.
Goidelic languages historically formed a dialect continuum stretching from Ireland through the Isle of Man to Scotland. There are three modern Goidelic languages: Irish (''Gaeilge''), Scottish Gaelic (''Gàidhlig'') and Manx (''Gaelg''), the last of which died out in the 20th century but has since been revived to some degree.
==Nomenclature==
Although Irish and Manx are often referred to as Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic (as they are Goidelic or Gaelic languages), the use of the word ''Gaelic'' is unnecessary because the terms Irish and Manx, when referring to language (as in, "to speak Irish"), only ever refer to these languages, whereas Scots has come to refer to a Germanic language, and therefore "Scottish" can refer to things not at all Gaelic. The word ''Gaelic'' by itself is sometimes used to refer to Scottish Gaelic (especially in Scotland) and is thus ambiguous.
The names used in the languages themselves (''Gaeilge/Gaolainn/Gaelic'' in Irish, ''Gaelg/Gailck'' in Manx, and ''Gàidhlig'' in Scottish Gaelic) are derived from Old Irish ''Goídelc'', which comes from Old Welsh ''Guoidel'' meaning "pirate, raider".〔Koch, John. The Goddodin of Aneirin, Celtic Studies Publications, 1997, pg. xcvii, note 2〕〔Koch, John (ed). Celtic Culture: a historical encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, 2006, p. 739〕 The medieval mythology of the Lebor Gabála Érenn places its origin in an eponymous ancestor of the Gaels, and inventor of the language, Goídel Glas.
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