Launched to coincide with St Andrew’s Day this year on November 30, language app Duolingo’s Gaelic course attracted an impressive 103,000 active learners in its first two weeks – outstripping the ...

Officers moving to or already based in the Western Isles have been offered the chance to learn the language Police officers in the Highlands and Islands are learning Gaelic as part of a drive to build ...

The Scottish Affairs Committee of the UK House of Commons has launched an inquiry into the future of Gaelic ...

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.

It was announced recently that the Western Isles (Outer Hebrides) Council will automatically enrol primary school children to be taught in Scottish Gaelic unless parents specifically opt to have their ...

Gaelic-speaking communities in Scotland are in crisis and the language could die out within 10 years, according to a new study. A team of experts from the University of the Highlands and Islands and ...

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 debate about whether the Irish Gaelic (Gaeilge) language is dead or alive still remains a hot topic in Ireland. We look at the many reasons why Gaeilge is more than just alive as a language.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year’s Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) presents the world premieres of a couple of films showcasing minority languages in the U.K ...