What Does Gaelic Mean?

The term Gaelic as an adjective means "Pertaining to the Gaels", whether to their lingo or their society. As a noun it may be addressed to a collection of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the separate languages.

It is also the term usually used in Ireland to signify the sport of Gaelic football. When addressing Scottish Gaelic, the Gaelic is normally pronounced in Scots and Scottish English. When addressing to Irish or Manx, it is normally pronounced as geilik.

Shelta at times reckoned as a Gaelic or Goiedelic language, though it is very much linked with Irish Gaelic it is not genetically connected.

Gaelic is the English name for the Celtic language of Ireland and Scotland. It is pronounced "Gay-lic" in Ireland and "Gall-ick" in Scotland.
In Ireland, Gaelic is generally known as Irish, and was once known is Scotland as Erse or Irish.
Gaelic was the principal language or Ireland during the Norse settlement in the late 8th century, and persisted through the 18th century, when it was discouraged under the British occupation of Ireland.
Gaelic is the national language of the Irish Republic (along with English) and spoken exclusively by some 100,000 people; in Scotland, some 80,000 people speak it, mainly in the Hebrides and Glasgow.
Gaelic died out as a natural language on the Isle of Man with the death of the last native speaker in 1974.
Gaelic was spoken widely in Canada and parts of the U.S. in the 18th and 19th centuries, but is now limited to about 5,000 speakers on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island.
There is a modern-day revival of Gaelic as part of the Irish pride movement, and it is now taught in schools.