GAELIC LANGUAGE. The term Gaelic is used for the surviving Celtic languages other than Welsh, Cornish and Breton, i.e. for Erse, Manx and Scottish Gaelic. In these languages the qu sound is often used where the p sound would be used in the other group. Gaelic spread from Ireland to Scotland with the Dal riadic Scots. Scottish Gaelic has given up the nasal mutation (or eclipse), e.g., Scottish or be), "our cow," Irish ar m-bd; Scottish manter "of the countries," Irish na d-tir. In some Gaelic speak ing areas, however (Skye and the Outer Isles), the mutations have been partly restored. See also in this connection CELTIC LAN GUAGES.