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Peterski
06-20-2019, 06:22 AM
Similarity map of a Scottish person with Gaelic-speaking background:

https://i.imgur.com/betIr3Q.png
billErobreren
06-20-2019, 06:40 AM
Is that Hebridean? As far as I know they're the most committed Gaelic speakers, if so, little bit surprised they ended up closer to Denmark than Western Norway.
Peterski
06-20-2019, 12:45 PM
Is that Hebridean?

No, he is a very old man from Cape Breton:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Gaelic
Ayetooey
06-20-2019, 12:46 PM
Y dna?
Grace O'Malley
06-22-2019, 08:30 AM
Is that Hebridean? As far as I know they're the most committed Gaelic speakers, if so, little bit surprised they ended up closer to Denmark than Western Norway.

I think most people from Britain and Ireland end up more similar to Denmark on that tool.

My results are very similar to this man.

http://i63.tinypic.com/2qtlb3t.jpg
http://i67.tinypic.com/fvb3eo.jpg
farke1
06-22-2019, 08:47 AM
I think most people from Britain and Ireland end up more similar to Denmark on that tool.

Very true. I have no known Danish ancestry and Denmark was one of my strongest matches on the K36 Map:
https://i.imgur.com/J58Q1R6.png

You have very cool results BTW, very similar to my father's.
Grace O'Malley
06-22-2019, 09:07 AM
This is my mother's result so they are all quite similar really.

http://i65.tinypic.com/6dsc3t.jpg
http://i67.tinypic.com/zv7g2r.jpg
Albannach
06-22-2019, 09:09 AM
Similarity map of a Scottish person with Gaelic-speaking background:

https://i.imgur.com/betIr3Q.png

Quite similar to my results.
https://i.imgur.com/Np634rN.png
J. Ketch
06-22-2019, 09:48 AM
Just adding my dad's K36 map to the collection on this thread, another full Gael (though doesn't speak a word)
https://i.postimg.cc/nhB4T1xH/jun19similarity.jpg

His other K36 map
https://i.postimg.cc/vBcL7wHK/june2019k36.jpg
Grace O'Malley
06-22-2019, 09:54 AM
Just adding my dad's K36 map to the collection on this thread, another full Gael (though doesn't speak a word)
https://i.postimg.cc/nhB4T1xH/jun19similarity.jpg

His other K36 map
https://i.postimg.cc/vBcL7wHK/june2019k36.jpg

He must speak a cúpla focail? Doesn't he even say sláinte or céad míle fáilte? :)
J. Ketch
06-22-2019, 10:26 AM
He must speak a cúpla focail? Doesn't he even say sláinte or céad míle fáilte? :)
If he does I haven't heard it :) There are a few familiar words and phrases here and there I'm sure.

He left Ireland as a teenager in the early 60s when I suppose the Irish language was less popular and less institutionally entrenched, at least where he was from.