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 ...

A new approach to supporting Gaelic is to focus on creating jobs and strengthening economic growth in areas where the language is traditionally spoken. An action group called Tog - which means "to ...

GAELIC should be given equal status to Welsh in correspondence with UK Government departments, an SNP MP has said.

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 ...

The Gaelic and Scots languages have gained official status in a “historic milestone” as people across Scotland mark St Andrew’s Day. It is one of a range of measures which come into force on November ...

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.

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 ...

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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, ...