Highland Gaelic

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proper noun The Scottish Gaelic language, as distinguished from the now defunct dialects of Lowland Gaelic.

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Champions of the, identical with Highland Gaelic heroes, 248

Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race
A man somewhere between fifty and sixty, at a guess; of middle height, spare and well-knit, high-nosed, fine-featured, keen-eyed; standing there on his own ground, courteous and even respectful, yet consciously a scholar; one who had travelled too -- had worked in England and Scotland, and could tell me that the Highland Gaelic was far nearer to the language of the old days than the Irish of to-day; finally, one who could recite without apparent effort long narrative poems in a dead literary dialect.

Irish Books and Irish People Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907