Scottish Gaelic

Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic)
Family:	Celtic
ISO Codes:	gd / gla / gla
Incubator:	apertium-ga-gd.gd.dix
Language pairs:	{{{pairs}}}

Resources

General stuff

• Comparison of Scottish and Irish Gaelic
• Two public domain Scottish Gaelic dictionaries

From Gramadóir

The text below is largely reproduced verbatim from information emailed by Kevin Scannell

First, DIREC-multi.txt contains some ga-gd multi-word phrases, but without any markup. It's incomplete, but you might find it useful.

The main thing of interest is the gd lexicon I'm sending. It is in the file focloir.txt. It's tab-separated, with three fields per line. First is the word, ending in an underscore and then its part of speech. The other two fields contain inflection information, either numerical codes or explicit words if there's something irregular about the word.

focloir.txt is processed by the perl script i.pl, also attached. It is used as both the user interface for adding new words to focloir.txt and also to export focloir.txt to a part-of-speech tagged word list suitable for use with gramadoir. Specifically, the lexicon-gd.txt file here: http://gramadoir.cvs.sourceforge.net/gramadoir/gd/

Lexical categories

See pos-gd.txt in this directory for the list of numerical POS tags.

Tag	Equiv.	Gloss
1 1 <U>	n/a	unknown
2 8 <T>	det	article
3 12 <S>	pr	preposition
4 16 <P>	prn	pronoun
5 20 <O>	?	"pronomial" ("to me", "from her", etc.)
6 22 <O em="y">	?.pos	emphatic possessive
7 24 <R>	adv	adverb
8 28 <C>	conj	conjunction
9 32 <Q>	?.int	interrogative
10 36 <I>	ij	interjection
11 40 <D>	?.pos	possessive
12 44 <Y>	np	proper names and the like
<N>	n	noun
<A>	adj	adjective
<V>	vblex	verb

Sub-categories

Term	Equiv.	Gloss
pl	sg, pl, sp	plural (yes/no)
gnt	nom, gen, dat	no = nom, yes = gen, d = dat
gnd	f, m, mf	gender
t=láith	vblex.pres	present tense
t=caite	vblex.past	past tense
t=fáist	vblex.fut	future tense
t=coinn	vblex.cond	conditional mood
t=foshuit	vblex.pis	subjunctive mood
t=ord	vblex.imp	imperative mood

Numerals

Traditional counting

Cardinal numbers with a noun

1 aon
2 dà
3 trì
4 ceither
5 còig
6 sia
7 seachd
8 ochd
9 naoi
10 deich
11 aon <noun sg> deug
12 dà <noun sg> dheug
13 trì <noun> dheug
14 ceither <noun> dheug
15 còig <noun> dheug
16 sia <noun> dheug
17 seachd <noun> dheug
18 ochd <noun> dheug
19 naoi <noun> dheug
20 fichead <noun sg>

Further reading

• Stasinos Konstantopoulos (1998) "A Morphological Analyser for Scottish Gaelic". MSc Thesis. University of Edinburgh.