A united Kingdom with a fully gaelic Scotland

In this scenario, Scotland is still almost entirely Gaelic speaking in 1707. By that I mean that different varieties of the goidelic language family are the mother tongue of the peasantry, merchant classes and the language of literature. It is also the language of the state and aristocracy where French and Latin aren't used. English has the status of a regional language in East Lothian as does Norn in the Northern Isles.

Would Gaelic be safe or would it suffer a similar decline to Irish in Ireland in OTL?
How would a Gaelic Scotland affect the Union politically?
Would Scottish independence happen? If so, when?
Would a Gaelic Scotland prevent the decline of Irish in Ireland?
 
In this scenario, Scotland is still almost entirely Gaelic speaking in 1707. By that I mean that different varieties of the goidelic language family are the mother tongue of the peasantry, merchant classes and the language of literature. It is also the language of the state and aristocracy where French and Latin aren't used. English has the status of a regional language in East Lothian as does Norn in the Northern Isles.

Would Gaelic be safe or would it suffer a similar decline to Irish in Ireland in OTL?
How would a Gaelic Scotland affect the Union politically?
Would Scottish independence happen? If so, when?
Would a Gaelic Scotland prevent the decline of Irish in Ireland?

As interesting as this is, it ignores the existence of the Scots Language.

Not only that, the Scots speakers lived in by far the most economically productive region of Scotland, so it isn't likely for Gaelic to dominate anything reasonably within plausible boundaries because of patterns dating back to the original Anglo-Saxon invasion of Celtic speakers retreating to the highlands (Welsh and Scottish mountain areas).
 
A Gaelic Scotland means no Scots, which means too many butterflies that makes a United Kingdom not too likely.

Union will happen, no way two nations on Great Britain (that IS the name of the island) can survive, you might as well be advocating that we can have Neandertals and Cro-magnon man coexist to modern days together. Whether Scotland has their colony in Panama and that causes them to go bankrupt leading to the Act of Union or not the Union will eventually happen one way or another.
 
Union will happen, no way two nations on Great Britain (that IS the name of the island) can survive
...are you serious here? Give me one historical reason why this is the case. The size of the island is not an acceptable reason, if only because Scotland survived until the early 18th century, and that was because of specific historical circumstances.
 
...are you serious here? Give me one historical reason why this is the case. The size of the island is not an acceptable reason, if only because Scotland survived until the early 18th century, and that was because of specific historical circumstances.

Intermarriage of dynasties, inevitable between two nations on a small island; simple Anglo-Saxon "Manifest Dynasty" and conquest over all "England", then Wales in 1100, then moving on to Ireland. There was simply no way that England and Scotland would survive as England moved into the position of great world power. Scotland would be too much of a threat as we moved into things like the Napoleonic Wars.
 
Intermarriage of dynasties, inevitable between two nations on a small island; simple Anglo-Saxon "Manifest Dynasty" and conquest over all "England", then Wales in 1100, then moving on to Ireland. There was simply no way that England and Scotland would survive as England moved into the position of great world power. Scotland would be too much of a threat as we moved into things like the Napoleonic Wars.
One change theoretically makes every single person a different person. If Scotland remains Gaelic, which requires butterflying away Scots and thus an extremely different Scotland, how do you know if England would be a Great Power or even a regional European power?
The English conquered Wales and Ireland, but they failed to conquer Scotland. A Gaelic Scotland is actually probably easier game for England, but then it wouldn't be formally called the United Kingdom anyways and is long before 1707.
 
For a Gaelic Scotland you need the Scots to not conquer Lothian (that part of Northumbria not conquered by Wessex), which means a poorer, weaker Scotland in general.
 
One change theoretically makes every single person a different person. If Scotland remains Gaelic, which requires butterflying away Scots and thus an extremely different Scotland, how do you know if England would be a Great Power or even a regional European power?
The English conquered Wales and Ireland, but they failed to conquer Scotland. A Gaelic Scotland is actually probably easier game for England, but then it wouldn't be formally called the United Kingdom anyways and is long before 1707.

Sorry, I dont subscribe to the unsubstantiated claim that one change changes every single person in the world theory. Unless you're telling me the PoD of ethnic/linguistics of Scotland somehow makes Scotland a credible threat to English ability to do what they did in OTL.
 
Sorry, I dont subscribe to the unsubstantiated claim that one change changes every single person in the world theory. Unless you're telling me the PoD of ethnic/linguistics of Scotland somehow makes Scotland a credible threat to English ability to do what they did in OTL.
And what did they do? Scotland was never conquered like Wales was (well, not really), it was only after the Stuarts became Kings of England that things began to change a lot, and the Stuarts are probably butterflied away by a Gaelic Scotland.

And no, it's not an unsubstantiated claim: sperms and eggs are not immortal, and any change in human agency causes shifts on a larger scale.
 
Union will happen, no way two nations on Great Britain (that IS the name of the island) can survive, you might as well be advocating that we can have Neandertals and Cro-magnon man coexist to modern days together. Whether Scotland has their colony in Panama and that causes them to go bankrupt leading to the Act of Union or not the Union will eventually happen one way or another.

Excuse me, but this is complete nonsense. A Gaelic Scotland would need an early POD, which could easily butterfly the great power status. Maybe one would even see a divided England.
 
Excuse me, but this is complete nonsense. A Gaelic Scotland would need an early POD, which could easily butterfly the great power status. Maybe one would even see a divided England.

All what a Gaelic Scotland needs is the urban and proto-urban burghs etc of the High Middle Ages 'going native' soon enough. Afterall, you had german founded towns of the Hanseatic league all over the Baltic sea without German replacing all the other languages there.
 
All what a Gaelic Scotland needs is the urban and proto-urban burghs etc of the High Middle Ages 'going native' soon enough. Afterall, you had german founded towns of the Hanseatic league all over the Baltic sea without German replacing all the other languages there.

That's still ignoring the fact that the scots speakers occupied the most valuable terrain in all of scotland, and most of the higher population towns were there.
 
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