Councillors agreed that the school could open next summer on condition that the Scottish government agreed to fund it.

Following Irish, we will take up another Celtic language. In recent national censuses, the number of Scottish Gaelic speakers nationwide has increased. However, the situation is different in the ...

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 ...

Researchers have completed the first phase of the world's most extensive digital archive of Scottish Gaelic texts as part of a landmark project to revolutionise access and understanding of the ...

Thousands of genome sequences identify human migrations that might have spread early forms of these tongues around Europe.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Analysis of ancient DNA from more than 4,500 people offers fresh evidence about how Celtic languages spread across Europe ...