Gaelic-speaking communities in Scotland are in crisis and the language could die out within 10 years, according to a new study. A team of experts from the University of the Highlands and Islands and ...
Launched to coincide with St Andrew’s Day this year on November 30, language app Duolingo’s Gaelic course attracted an impressive 103,000 active learners in its first two weeks – outstripping the ...
Kate Forbes, a Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP) politician who speaks the language, has proposed a scheme that would potentially develop Gaelic-speaking housing estates to preserve the language.
It was announced recently that the Western Isles (Outer Hebrides) Council will automatically enrol primary school children to be taught in Scottish Gaelic unless parents specifically opt to have their ...
Efforts to support and encourage Gaelic in Sutherland are in line for a boost following the creation of a new teaching post ...
Gaelic speakers, novice or fluent, are being encourage to use the language every day to help normalise its use in Scotland.
A theory has been advanced here in the Evening News to the effect that Gaelic was the language of the ancient Jews in Palestine. “It is rather remarkable,” says the News article, “that throughout the ...