Quote Originally Posted by brett
Niamh, speaking Irish, does it mean you can understand Scottish aswell. How mutually intelligible are they?
There's no such language as Scottish. The Celtic language closely related to Irish is simply called Gaelic in Scotland. Scots, on the other hand, is/ was a germanic language closely related to English. The latter gradually usurped the former as the de facto national language, just as it was itself later usurped by modern English after the Union.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_language