The ancient Scottish language is wrestling with new and old identities. By Rachel Ashcroft The Hebridean Baker has more than 243,000 TikTok followers. Among his recipe clips are videos of Scottish ...

MORE people have logged on to learn Gaelic on a free app than the number of actual speakers. More than 60,600 punters signed up in just two days for Duolingo’s course in the dialect after it was ...

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The survival of language in its heartlands is now facing “life or death” with Gaelic media also hit hard. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the ...

A study has suggested Scottish Gaelic is "in crisis" and without radical action the language will die out within a decade. The findings come in a book called The Gaelic Crisis in The Vernacular ...

BURNS Night is a huge annual event in the calendar for those in Scotland. The much-loved poet wrote in English and also Scottish Gaelic, which was his local dialect. Robert Burns, who did not actually ...