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 ...

In August 2002 Itchy Coo, an imprint dedicated to publishing books in Scots for young readers, launched its first four titles at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Did you know with a Digital ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Scotland news every morning. When John Finlayson was growing up, almost everyone in his community on the Isle of Skye was fluent in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Scots Gaelic could be dead within a decade as university researchers have found that social use of the language is at the 'point of collapse'. A major study forecasts that just 45 per cent of people ...

Councils could get the power to designate areas in which the Gaelic language could receive special support, BBC Naidheachdan understands. The Scottish government is expected to publish a new languages ...

I write as a private individual with a passion for the Scots language, the ancient state language of Scotland in pre-Union times and the language of writers from Dunbar and Lyndsay, through Burns, to ...