Galwegian Gaelic
George Buchanan, himself a Gaelic speaker, writing in 1575, reported that Gaelic was still spoken in Galloway. In the middle of the century, 1563–1566, an anonymous English military investigator reported that the people of Carrick "for the most part specke erishe".
History of Icelandic
Again along with English, Icelandic is unusual among Germanic languages to have conserved, if only at a local level, the pronunciation of the word-initial consonantal cluster : Icelandic "hvað", "hvalur" , more commonly . In English "what", "whale", the is only pronounced in certain dialects. The other Germanic languages have consonantized the cluster: German "was", "Wal-fisch" , Dutch "wat", "wal-vis", Swedish "vad", "val[fisk]". Until the early years of the 20th century Swedish maintained the orthography in words such as "hvad, hvalfisk", which is purely historical. In Danish one writes but does not pronounce : "hvad", "hval-fisk" , while in Nynorsk, in some cases, one writes and pronounces ("kva"), exactly as is usual in modern Icelandic (southern dialect and literary). There are also indications that was originally pronounced .