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Originally Posted by Kelpie Right, Irish is Gaelic -- though Gaelic is not always Irish. |
Yes- they are not one and the same, but Irish is certainly Gaelic. I will agree with Brian that Irish is very easy on the ears (my Scot ancestors are spinning in their graves, or roaming their haunts, 'cause I said that- but Scot means Irish in Latin, so the blue lady should go back to her bier...).
If you're going to invent a language I'd suggest basing it, closely, on an existing one. Too hard otherwise. Also, you might read some of the psycholinguistics literature. Stephen (sp?) Pinker has written some books for the layman.
I speak 4 languages well enough to get around in (one of which is non-Indo-European), read a few more, and have a superficial familiarity with another half dozen. I don't think I could invent a convincing language, from whole cloth. Language is one of the most amazing things we do (recognizing faces, and reading emotion in them, is right up there, IMHO)- even the dullest of us is a virtuoso by the time he's three.