Tá an ríomhaire tar éis cliseadh

My Glaswegian wife is a follower of all things Gaelic (at least, of the Scottish dialect of Gaelic, as opposed to the Irish one). Although she’s a Mac user, Carole was delighted to learn from the BBC about a forthcoming version of Windows Vista being translated into Gaelic.

Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language popular on the western side of Scotland, the Western Isles and the Highlands. It’s closely related to Irish Gaelic; the linguistic family also includes Welsh, Cornish and Breton.

According to BBC Scotland, Opera and OpenOffice already have Gaelic language support, but this is the first time that Windows will be translated into that language.

You can learn more about Gaelic from the Bòrd na Gàidhlig (Gaelic Board), a organization working with the Scottish Executive seeking to promote the language for the approximately 58,000 people who speak it today, and to preserve it for the future.

By the way, tá an ríomhaire tar éis cliseadh means “the computer is down,” according to this convenient Gaelic/English dictionary of computer terms.