Reports reveal that Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Irish will – for the first time – feature in a royal coronation with King Charles III. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can ...
Scottish Gaelic has been spoken as an indigenous language in Scotland for thousands of years, and it is as different from ...
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MORE people have logged on to learn Gaelic on a free app than the number of actual speakers. More than 60,600 punters signed up in just two days for Duolingo’s course in the dialect after it was ...
The ancient Scottish language is wrestling with new and old identities. By Rachel Ashcroft The Hebridean Baker has more than 243,000 TikTok followers. Among his recipe clips are videos of Scottish ...
GAELIC should be given equal status to Welsh in correspondence with UK Government departments, an SNP MP has said.
I went on my first visit to the Western Isles last week. As someone learning Welsh, I was appalled by the lack of prominence given to the language. I agree with the comments made by those who suggest ...
The Scottish government has given £2m funding for an online Gaelic dictionary that could take 30 years to complete. Work has already begun collecting source material for a digital archive containing ...
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 ...
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Finding the value in an ancient way of speaking. The feeling of walking barefoot across a beach in summer and the sun-warmed sand chafing my toes takes me the length of this sentence to describe. My ...