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

Scottish Gaelic has been spoken as an indigenous language in Scotland for thousands of years, and it is as different from ...

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.

Glasgow City Council has reaffirmed its commitment to promoting the Gaelic language within its communities as the city prepares to host an international celtic festival next October. Royal National ...

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German students make up the biggest number of overseas students studying the Gaelic Irish language at a Scottish Gaelic college. Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic college in Skye, has more German students ...

IT’S the biggest night of the year for Gaelic culture. Some of the brightest businesses, sports groups, teachers, artists and young people from around Scotland will be honoured tomorrow at the second ...

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, ...