Erse : Scots/Scottish Gaelic, offshoot of the Irish language, & member of the Goidelic group of Celtic languages which are spoken in NW Scotland & the Hebrides.
... universal language once created or once adopted may end by killing out the regional languages as Latin killed out the languages of Gaul, Spain and Italy or as English has killed out Cornish, Gaelic, Erse and has been encroaching on the Welsh tongue. On the other hand, there is a revival nowadays, due to the growing subjectivism of the human mind, of the principle of free variation and refusal of uniformity ...
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