The Western Isles is the council area with the most Gaelic speakers in Scotland Gaelic and Scots have now been recognised as official languages as part of a range of new measures coming into force on ...

Gaelic in Scotland is in a "perilous state" and more needs to be done to "urgently support" language speakers, a Holyrood committee has warned. The Scottish government has introduced the Scottish ...

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 ...

Experts from the Council of Europe have urged authorities to strengthen the teaching of Gaelic and Scots in a new report. The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages report is based on ...

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.

A free online language learning service with more than 300 million users will launch its Scottish Gaelic course on St Andrew’s Day. Duolingo was launched in 2011 and now has more than 90 languages on ...

First of all, may we lay to rest the issue of which is the "real language" of Scotland? Gaelic was not the first language to be spoken on what is now Scottish soil, but since the languages of the ...

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Gaelic and Scots have now been recognised as official languages as part of a range of new measures coming into force on St Andrew's Day. The Scottish Languages Act, which MSPs voted through in June, ...