« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 18 April 12 13:17 BST (UK) »
Scottish Gaidhlig was spoken in Galloway but died out in the 1700s. Interestingly the Galwegian dialect contained words that weren't in other dialects like Argyll Gaidhlig, Lennox Gaidhlig, Mid-minch etc.
I would be pretty skeptical of the claim that people in Galloway had 'Irish twangs' due to Irish immigration in the middle to late 1800s. I would say that it is far more likely that this accent comes from the fact that most of the area originally spoke Scottish Gaidhlig.
Gr-Gr-Gr Grandparents and relevant areas: MacDonald (Skye/Renfrewshire/Glasgow), Johnstone (Inverness/Ayr/Glasgow), MacPherson (Ross/Glasgow), Irvine (Ireland/Glasgow), Berrie (Dunkeld/Glasgow), Biggar (Paisley/Glasgow), Bradley (Ireland/Glasgow), McCorkindale (Argyll/Glasgow), Hardie (Ireland/Greenock), Scott (Greenock) , Kane (Ireland), Maguire (Ireland), McLarty (Argyll/Greenock), McLean (Argyll/Greenock), Petrie (Fife/Dundee/Greenock), Graham (Argyll/Greenock).
