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The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.

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[–] Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

A neat bit of history about the Scots is that they left a tiny word in Indigenous language in the James and Hudson Bay region.

I'm Indigenous and I know lots of families that have direct connections to the Irish, Scots and French .... hell, there is a few stories in my family tree where they might have been a Scot or Irishman in there somewhere about a hundred years back or more.

We have a word .... SAGANASH ... in the Ojibway/Cree, Cree, full Ojibway languages ... it generally means to describe someone (a Native person) who is trying to be white or act like a white person ... it's derogatory but not terribly, it's a word to just make fun of someone ... it's not on the level of calling a black person the n-word

The word .... SAGANASH ... I always thought was just another Indigenous word and never thought about it. It wasn't until a few years ago that I discovered that it is from the Scots language ... the original word is Scots and pronounced ... SASANACH ... a word they used to describe the English ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sassenach

And the modern Indigenous word ... SAGANASH ... also has different meanings now ... in some places it is still a word used to make fun of others ... they use it this way around northern Ontario and western James and Hudson Bay region ... but over on the Quebec side, the word seems to lose its original meaning and it is just normalized to almost nothing ... to the point where it became a family name ... one well known Member of Parliament in Canada was Romeo Saganash, an Indigenous Cree from James Bay.

[–] yuri@pawb.social 5 points 2 days ago

this is really interesting, thank you!

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Chuir mi mar fhiacham gu robh Gàidhlig oifigeil a-cheana

(Sorry if my Gàidhlig is bad)

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I thought this had been the case since at least devolution