Classical Gaelic


Classical Gaelic was a shared literary form of Early Modern Irish that was in use in Scotland and Ireland from the 13th century to the 18th century.
Although the first written signs of Scottish Gaelic having diverged from Irish appear as far back as the 12th century annotations of the Book of Deer, Scottish Gaelic did not have a standardised form and did not appear in print on a significant scale until the 1767 translation of the New Testament into Scottish Gaelic although John Carswell's Foirm na n-Urrnuidheadh, an adaptation of John Knox's Book of Common Order, was the first book printed in either Scottish or Irish Gaelic.

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gives the name "Hiberno-Scottish Gaelic" to cover both Classical Gaelic and Early Modern Irish.