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Originally Posted by Milesian
However, the people living in the Gaeltachtai speak a Celtic language as their first tongue.
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I wondered what a Gaeltachtai was. Apparently each of the areas where Gaelic is spoken as a first language, which together form the Gaeltacht or Gaeldom, in Ireland.
Its equivalent in Scotland is the Gàidhealtachd, which is represented in the map posted by Highland Thistle:
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