Scottish Gaelic has been spoken as an indigenous language in Scotland for thousands of years, and it is as different from ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, ...

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.

For those who are traveling to Scotland, there are several etiquette rules that they need to realize about the Scots, ...

SCOTLAND is setting the agenda for sign language provision internationally thanks to new graduates from the country's first degree course on the subject. More than a dozen new sign language ...

Teaching a modern language in the UK was once described by the eminent languages educator Eric Hawkins as “gardening in a gale”. But as a languages teacher, the well documented decline in pupils ...

Observers, many of them Canadian, are flooding into Scotland this week to watch the final few days of the referendum on independence. I’ll be among them, and I’ve been polishing up my ...