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On the Dialects of Scottish Gaelic. 3i:
posos a diU'ercnt language from tlic Brythonic l)ranch. No amount
of natural intelligence will enable a Jliglilander to understand a
Welshman, or an Irishman to read a book in the Armoric dialect.
But on the other hand, are the three divisions of which the
Goidelic branch of Celtic is composed—are Gaelic, Irish, and
Manx three languages, or three dialects of one speech 1 few
among us could understand two Irishmen or two Manxmen
discussing, with all the fervour of the Celt, a knotty point in
politics or theology; and yet if any of us were alone on a desert
islanil with an Irishman or a Manxman, we would contrive, by
means of our common Goidelic speech, ti> understand each other.
And if you take a passage from the Gaelic, Irish, and Manx
Testaments, you will find it intelligible in them all, and will at once
say that these three are but three varieties of one language ;
Gaelic,
gniomhara n'ax abstol.
XXVII.
39. Agus an iiair a hha'n
l;\air teachd,ch:i d'aithnich
iail am fi arann :
ach thug iad an aire do
h'lil) hraidh aig an robh
tiai-Ii, anns an robh
mhiaiui orra, nam b'urrainn
iad, pn long a
chur gu tir.
Irish,
oxiomhartha xa
NEASBAL.
XXVII. XXVII.
—
Manx,
janxoo ny iiostyllvn.
id. Agus ar ndirghe don 39. As tra va'n laa er
16, ni raibh fios na tire jeot rish, clia bione daiie
sin aca : achd tugadar
caladhairigliedha naire
ann a raibli tnligh, ami
ar dontnigheadar an
lung do shathadh, d^
madh didir rlu.
40. Agus air togail nan 40. Agusardt6gl)hail na 40. As tra v'ad cr droirg^d
atjraichcau doibh, leig nancaireadh dhoibh, do ny akeryu, lliig ad ee
iad ris an fliairtje i, leigeadar an lumj i&a I'-sli ycheayn.asfeaysley
agus an uair a dh'fhuasgail
iad ceringlaichean
na stiiiire, agus a thog
iad am piiomb-sheol ris
a' gliaoith, sheul iad
chum na trhighe.
bhfairrge, agus ar
sg.'ioileadh cheaiighiigh
tlieadh na sdiuire
dhoibli mar an gcdudna,
do thogbhadar an
priomhsedl ris an
ngdoith, agus do thrlalladar
chum na tnlgha.
;
yn cheer : agh chronnee
ad ooig dy row lesh traie,
raad v'ad kiarit, my
oddagli eh ve, yn Ihong
y roie stiagh.
'
coyrdyn y stiurey, hug
ad seose yn shiaull-nic.in
fiys y gheay, as roii a