Alba
（重定向自Albyn）
![Coronation of King Alexander III on Moot Hill, Scone on 13 July 1249. He is being greeted by the ollamh rìgh, the royal poet, who is addressing him with the proclamation](/Images/godic/202412/18/Alexander_III_and_Ollamh_Rígh3711.JPG")
![Scotland welcomes arrivals on the A7, Fàilte gu Alba](/Images/godic/202412/18/Failte_Scottish3711.jpg")
Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name (pronounced [ˈal̪ˠapə]) for Scotland. It is cognate to Alba (gen. Albann, dat. Albainn) in Irish and Nalbin in Manx, the two other Goidelic Insular Celtic languages, as well as words in the Brythonic Insular Celtic languages of Cornish (Alban) and Welsh (Yr Alban) that also, in modern practice, are the Goidelic and Brythonic names for Scotland; although in the past they were names for Britain as a whole, related to the Brythonic name Albion.