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  A ”new” language for the druidic community?

  Posted by Emrys on October 5, 2026 at 7:35 pm

  Hello, I am Ymrafael. I am a scholar and a mage dedicated to preserving and restoring the druidic tradition! I study and explore the lore, myth and legends as well as philosophy and the sciences; linguistics, mathematics, psychology, biology, anthropology and of course, esotericism and the occult. What I’ve found during my investigations has lead me to conclude that most, if not all the lore of the old druids still remains preserved, not far from plain sight. It needs only to be uncovered and dusted off!

  Anyway, one of my ideas to restore the druidic tradition is through language. Language and culture are the unifying elements in any community. Goidel crafted the Gaelic by combining the best languages of his day. Hugh MacDiarmid endeavoured to formalize Scots by combining the old words of several unique dialects. Continuing on this idea, I have been synthesizing old tongues and dialects into vessels for the future.

  The New Scotic is a synthesis of Scots, Yola, Shetlandic, Yorkie , English, ”Pan Celtic”, Proto-Celtic, Cumbraek, Latin and French lexemes, Ossetian, Coptic, Canaanite, and Sambahsa (with a bit of ore mined from worldly ”wander-words” to balance out the medley). New Scotic, at this time, is a ”Cimbrian” language ( a Teutonic language utilizing a significant amount of Celtic vocabulary) . Like English, the New Scotic has a significant influence from the Latin languages. Just the same, I have endeavoured to synthesize word stock or roots common to both Celtic and Germanic families (Pan Celtic and Celto-Germanic).I have also endeavoured to utilize word stock common to both PIE (Proto Indo European) and PAA (Proto Afro Asiatic). There are many words in Coptic and Canaanite that are cognate with Germanic and Celtic . These are the sort of wander words or ”Proto Cognates” that “New Scotic” incorporates (but also to commemorate the legend of Queen Scota!) .

  Currently, the primary purpose of the ”New Scotic tongue” is simply for recording and preserving histories, translations, creating psalms, poetry, song and community among friends. Perhaps in the future a league of Druids, Scientists and Bards could create new words by using a series of root words and combining forms. By understanding some of those basic roots we can combine them to create new concepts or express existing ideas in different ways. It’s possible the future of New Scotic may involve the application of some form of agreed upon ” Leibnzian Univerisal Grammar”. At present, spelling does not really matter in the New Scotic. So long as it is understandable it’s perfectly fine to write a word how it sounds with one’s grasp of letters.

  New Scotic is not a constructed language perse, but rather a ”sanskrit-ization” , the perfecting of a language very much alive and in use to this very day. And yet this new scotic would also be a universal dialect intimately connected to an ancient identity that encompassed diverse groups sharing an affinity with the ”Proto-Scythians” ”Scythian-Hebrews” ”Phoenician-Danai” ”Celto-Scythians” the Picts and Gaels that came together to form the early Scottish as well as the later Danes, Northumbrians and Norse-Gaels . The New Scotic uses ”indo-germanic” (Proto Indo European) vocabulary that demonstrate affinity with words found in Old Chinese, Tsimshian, Bantu, Japanese and the Afro Asiatic dialects like Egyptian, Hebrew and Arabic. But no – it is not a hodgepodge of random words filched from disparate languages…Rather the New Scotic synthesizes the ultra conservative vocabulary found throughout all the world’s dialects! Technically, as a distinct language, it is not yet fully formed, it still requires some refinement … However, there’s no point in doing so if nobody is interested in it! (Nod)

  So, would you like to know more?

  To rividen , nae faer o wis!

  (until we ”see” each other again ; have no doubt about my doing this)

  • This discussion was modified 1 week, 5 days ago by  Emrys.

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