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.

Scottish and UK ministers clash over Gaelic broadcasting and the BBC Charter as Holyrood demands devolved broadcasting powers ...

As Scotland’s largest celebration of Gaelic culture and music gets under way, Education, Culture and Gaelic Secretary Mairi McAllan confirmed more than £1 million of funding to help local authorities ...

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 ...

Language learning app Duolingo has launched the beta version of its new Scottish Gaelic course, with more than 20,000 people already signed up. An endangered language, Scottish Gaelic is predominately ...

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 Scottish government has announced £1 million to support Gaelic through “the introduction of areas of linguistic ...

The Scottish Languages Act – passed last year by Holyrood – paves the way for 'areas of linguistic significance' to be ...

In recent months there has been talk of a "Gaelic crisis" in Scotland, based on a study that predicts Gaelic may be disappearing across the country. I do not speak Gaelic, but I have spent five years ...