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2026
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| Online-Zugang: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02135 |
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- Multilingual large language models (LLMs) often exhibit emergent 'shadow' capabilities in languages without official support, yet their performance on these languages remains uneven and under-measured. This is particularly acute for morphosyntactically rich minority languages such as Scottish Gaelic, where translation benchmarks fail to capture structural competence. We introduce GaelEval, the first multi-dimensional benchmark for Gaelic, comprising: (i) an expert-authored morphosyntactic MCQA task; (ii) a culturally grounded translation benchmark and (iii) a large-scale cultural knowledge Q&A task. Evaluating 19 LLMs against a fluent-speaker human baseline ($n=30$), we find that Gemini 3 Pro Preview achieves $83.3\%$ accuracy on the linguistic task, surpassing the human baseline ($78.1\%$). Proprietary models consistently outperform open-weight systems, and in-language (Gaelic) prompting yields a small but stable advantage (+$2.4\%$). On the cultural task, leading models exceed $90\%$ accuracy, though most systems perform worse under Gaelic prompting and absolute scores are inflated relative to the manual benchmark. Overall, GaelEval reveals that frontier models achieve above-human performance on several dimensions of Gaelic grammar, demonstrates the effect of Gaelic prompting and shows a consistent performance gap favouring proprietary over open-weight models.