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 ...

They came to remember the Battle of Culloden of 1746, when the British army crushed the Jacobite rising. The ancient language repressed after that defeat—Gaelic—was everywhere at this event: heard in ...

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.

The Gaelic and Scots languages have gained official status in a “historic milestone” as people across Scotland mark St Andrew’s Day. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...