#I think(?) the likely end of the official Pictish identity separate to Celts

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this is a wonderful addition and I appreciate that you're learning gaidhlig-- I do want to correct that the Picts weren't annihilated by the Romans. They actually assimilated over time with the Celts of the area, during which time the Pictish Kingdoms/Kingship merged with the Kingdom of Dál Riata to create the Kingdom of Alba sometime around the 900s CE. This was well after the Roman departure from the British isles, and the Pictish people were well integrated into the Celtic people by that time. (though the Picts were noted as having come into conflict with the Romans for a long fuckin time and may have been pirates that would raid the Romans lmao)

Celts and Picts both are essentially indigenous Scots, as much as any Celtic line in a Celtic country elswhere. Picts were not destroyed, they integrated, as cultures did regularly throughout history. Their descendants presumably are still here in Scotland, and wherever a Scottish diaspora has ended up-- tho obviously, genetics that far back don't trace very well and don't have a huge bearing on a given individual nowadays, honestly. In the end, the Picts were very likely Gaelicised-- because the Gaels did exert a controlling power over the area in the time very unlike the position of Gaelic people now-- and their language and culture became a part of the greater fabric of what would become Scotland.

I'm not a historian of any sort, mind. Just an armchair enthusiast and autistic with a very focused interest in the Pictish people.

since I have been thinking about it: important note for those not in the know!

Scots is not 'butchered English' or 'slang' or 'a dialect', it is in fact its own language-- a branch offshoot of older English which became a full language in its own right hundreds of years ago.

In fact, it's developed enough as a language that it has 10 major dialect areas! some of which are BLINDINGLY different to each other! (Borders vs the Doric cage match anyone?)

if you see someone write Scots as 'mangled English' or call it that, they're being a cunt! Stop engaging with the colonialist efforts of the former British Empire, if you can. We all should.