06-14-2011, 12:23 PM
(06-14-2011, 01:32 AM)mikemac Wrote: I'm not talking about the written word. If spoken Latin words sounded similar to the same spoken words in a Gaelic language they'd be able to understand the Latin Mass when they heard it.
Well, as a matter of fact they don't even sound anything alike. I assume you know what Latin sounds like. Now here are links to radio stations that broadcast in Scots Gaelic:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radionangaidheal/
And Welsh:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radiocymru/
If you take the time to listen, you will discover that Gaelic and Welsh sound nothing alike and neither sounds anything like Latin.