Bella Caledonia – Ghetto na Gàidhlig

’S e Farpais bhliadhnail filmichean goirid a th’ ann am FilmG, a tha a’ leasachadh tàlant ùr airson nam meadhanan Gàidhlig. FilmG is the Gaelic short film competition. This is its 18th year. The format is super-simple, make a five-minute film in gaelic, about anything. FilmG says: “It exists to help people to make films

A new campaign is being unveiled today (19 March) encouraging people and organisations to commit to using the Gaelic language every day across Scotland. The ‘Gach Latha’ movement aims to showcase Gaelic being spoken in communities, online and in workplaces, inspiring more people to use the language. Ealasaid MacDonald, CEO of Bòrd na Gàidhlig, said: “We

The Carrying Stream is a new podcast series hosted by Paul Malgrati exploring Scottish ‘words and ideas’. “This episode’s guest is Dr Petra Johana Poncarová, a native speaker of Czech who has become a distinguished scholar of Gaelic literature and an emerging, award-winning poet in Gaelic. We begin with Petra’s journey into the Gaelic language,

Some musings to conclude Seachdain na Gàidhlig / World Gaelic Week 2026. A’ Ghàidhlig (English below) Dé a th’ann an cànain? ’Se an fhreagairt leanabail dha sin, “meadhan conaltraidh,” ach tha fada nas mò na siud innte. Chan eil faclan ’nan eileanan-céill ach ’nan drochaidean eadar seaghan, beachdan, agus còmhraidhean a mhair feadh ghinealaichean. Bheir cànain

The biggest ever edition of Seachdain na Gàidhlig (World Gaelic Week) blasts off today, celebrating Scottish Gaelic across the globe. The record-breaking fifth edition of the annual language celebration aims to promote the theme, Use it or Lose it (Cleachd i no Caill i), championing the vitality of Gaelic as a living language. Joy Dunlop, Director

Is fheàrr Gàidhlig bhriste na Gàidhlig anns a’ chiste! “Broken Gaelic is better than Gaelic in a coffin!” When people hear I speak Scottish Gàidhlig, they usually want to listen to how it sounds; its throaty ch sound found in the word loch that English mostly steers clear of, like clearing a whisper from your throat rather than a

SRADAGAN SAN IARMAILT / SPARKS IN THE FIRMAMENT Ginealach Ùr Bhàrd Gàidhealach / A New Generation Of Gaelic Poets Francis Boutle Publishers announces the publication of Sradagan san Iarmailt / Sparks in the Firmament, a major new anthology bringing together the foremost Gaelic poets to have emerged since the turn of the millennium. This wide-ranging

The Scottish Languages Act passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament this week is the most important language legislation for Gaelic in twenty years and the first ever for the Scots language. The Act is a complex, incrementalist measure that authorises a range of legal mechanisms, strategies, standards, regulations and guidance documents concerning language development and

Scottish Gaelic, spoken by roughly 60,000 people today, is poised for a technological transformation thanks to the ÈIST project, led by the University of Edinburgh. ÈIST [eːʃtʲ] (‘ayshch’) is short for Ecosystem for Interactive Speech Technologies, and means ‘listen’ in Gaelic. The project is funded by the Scottish Government and Bòrd na Gàidhlig, with key partners including the BBC ALBA, NVIDIA, the University

Inagural lecture by Will Lamb, Professor of Gaelic Ethnology and Linguistics at Edinburgh University … | Watch video here.