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Scottish Gaelic or Scots Gaelic, sometimes also referred to simply as Gaelic or the Gaelic, is a Celtic language native to Scotland. A member of the Goidelic branch of the Q-Celtic language branch of Indo-European, Scottish Gaelic is closely related to the Irish and Manx languages with Scottish Gaelic sharing much of its orthography with Irish. Most of modern Scotland was once Gaelic-speaking, as evidenced especially by Gaelic-language place names.

In the 2011 census of Scotland, 57,375 people (1.1% of the Scottish population aged over three years old) reported as able to speak Gaelic, 1,275 fewer than in 2001. The highest percentages of Gaelic speakers were in the Outer Hebrides. Only about half of speakers were fully literate in the language. Nevertheless, there are revival efforts, and the number of speakers of the language under age 20 did not decrease between the 2001 and 2011 censuses. Outside Scotland, Canadian Gaelic is spoken mainly in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

Scottish Gaelic for English speakers was added to the Duolingo Incubator on August 6, 2019. On November 26, 2019, Scottish Gaelic entered the beta phase. The course graduated from beta on December 10, 2019.

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Main article: Guide to keyboard layouts and input methods

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic

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