{"id":15857,"date":"2018-07-12T17:43:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T16:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15857"},"modified":"2018-07-12T17:43:52","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T16:43:52","slug":"multilingual-skye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15857","title":{"rendered":"Multilingual Skye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skye is quite a multilingual place with residents and visitors from around the world. During the past few days I&#8217;ve met people from a variety of countries, and have spoken quite few different languages, including Scottish Gaelic, Irish, French, German, Swedish, and a bit of English. There are also speakers of Scots, Italian, Finnish and Japanese here, and there are people in the song class who have studied Old Norse, Old English, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/ugaritic.htm\">Ugaritic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night I met a guy from New Mexico who is a native speaker of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/navajo.htm\">Navajo<\/a> &#8211; his wife has Scottish roots and is studying Gaelic here while he has a holiday. I asked him if he could record a few things in Navajo for me, but he said he can&#8217;t read the language very well, so would find it difficult to read them from Omniglot.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/42634219184\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Session in the Talla M\u00f2r\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1768\/42634219184_454e0716fa_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Session in the Talla M\u00f2r\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last night there was an epic music session in the bar with lots of tunes and songs &#8211; I sang a few of my own songs, which went down well, and others sang in Scottish Gaelic, Irish, Scots and English. When I left the bar at 2am the session was still going, and apparently carried on until at least 4am. So many of us are feeling rather tired today.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/43349530641\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Session in the Talla M\u00f2r\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/847\/43349530641_f129a77f00_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Session in the Talla M\u00f2r\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Today we recorded a few songs in the college&#8217;s recording studio for the people who are doing the sound engineering course. I&#8217;m looking foward to hearing the recording.<\/p>\n<p>The end of course c\u00e8ilidh takes place tonight, and each class will be doing their party piece. Most will be singing, and the song class will be doing five songs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skye is quite a multilingual place with residents and visitors from around the world. During the past few days I&#8217;ve met people from a variety of countries, and have spoken quite few different languages, including Scottish Gaelic, Irish, French, German, Swedish, and a bit of English. There are also speakers of Scots, Italian, Finnish and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,109,111,116,127,128,10,30,55,56,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-finnish","category-french","category-german","category-irish","category-italian","category-language","category-navajo","category-scots","category-scottish-gaelic","category-swedish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}