> > that all 'Scots' are Celts is to be on unsafe ground. Scottish Highlanders > > regard Lowland Scots as 'Sassenach'and the language of the Lowlands - > >'Lallans' is of course an English dialect that has no direct connection with >> the Celtic language of the Highlanders. > Rwy'n gwybod bod llawer o Albanwyr y dde yn credu mai dim ond > Albanwry y gogledd sydd o dras Geltig ond roedd y barddoniaeth Cymraeg > cyntaf yn cael ei ysgrifennu yn yr Alban - yn y "Lowlands" hefyd. Pan > oeddwn i yn f'arddegau roeddwn i'n byw yn Glasgow ac roeddwn i'n arfer > atgoffa fy ffindiau yna fod Strathclyde yn ardal lle siaradir Cymraeg > ar un adeg. .....and of course the Gaeltacht of Scotland is only so because Gaelic was imposed on the 6th and 7th centuary inhabitants by invading Gaelic speakers from Ireland. Before that the languages of what we now call Scotland were Pictish (a non celtic non indo-european language *possibly* related to Euskadi) and Brythonic dialects (related to the ones that gave rise to Welsh, Breton and Cornish). Andrew