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Definition of Gaels

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person from the Scottish Highlands, Celt
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[File:Map Gaels Brythons Picts.png|thumb|right|200px|Britain and Ireland in the first few centuries of the 1st millennium, before the founding of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. Gaelic language and culture would eventually become dominant in the Pictish area and far northern Brythonic area.]] The Gaels or Goidels are speakers of the Gaelic (or Goidelic) languages; a branch of the Celtic languages comprising Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx. Historically, the Gaels were a distinct ethnic group. Gaelic language and culture originated in Ireland, extending to Dál Riata in southwest Scotland. In the Middle Ages it became dominant throughout Scotland and the Isle of Man also. However, in most areas, the Gaels were gradually anglicized and the Gaelic languages supplanted by English.

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