Galwegian Gaelic

This article is about the Gaelic dialect of Galloway in Scotland. For the dialect of County Galway in Ireland, see Connacht Irish.

Galwegian Gaelic
Gallovidian Gaelic
Gallowegian Gaelic
Galloway Gaelic
Gàidhlig
RegionGalloway, Annandale, Nithsdale and Carrick, Scotland
Extinct1760, with the death of Margaret McMurray
Early forms
Latin script (Scottish Gaelic orthography)
Language codes
ISO 639-3–
gla-gal
GlottologNone

Galwegian Gaelic (also known as Gallovidian Gaelic, Gallowegian Gaelic, or Galloway Gaelic) is an extinct dialect of Scottish Gaelic formerly spoken in southwest Scotland. It was spoken by the people of Galloway and Carrick until the early modern period. Other than numerous placenames and a song collected in North Uist, little of it has survived, so that its exact relationship with other Scottish Gaelic dialects is uncertain.

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