Category: Ghetto na Gàidhlig

The Scottish Languages Act: opportunities and challenges

Le Bella Caledonia Editor

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 […]

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Gaelic in the Digital Age: Inside the ÈIST Project

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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 […]

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As a Gaelic speaker, I also find the bilingual signs offensive

Le Bella Caledonia Editor

Apparently, Andrew Marr finds the Gaelic on signage in Scotland offensive. Yes, the signs are offensive. Because the Gaelic isn’t big enough. I am fed up with the ignorance towards the history of Gaelic in Scotland, and so you won’t get another history lesson and dictionary of placenames from me showing how Gaelic is a […]

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On Andrew Marr’s Anti-Gaelic Outburst

Le Bella Caledonia Editor

The broadcaster and columnist Andrew Marr has hit the headlines with a remarkable outburst against gaelic language signs at the Labour Party conference. Marr’s outburst came as the Scottish Labour leader was asked by an audience member if he would be looking to learn lessons from Labour in Wales’s promotion of the Welsh language. When […]

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Suirbhidh air mòr-ionad Gàidhlig / Survey about Gaelic hub

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Tha Ionad Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann a’ dèanamh suirbhidh coimhearsnachd an-dràsta air ‘mòr-ionad’ no ‘hub’ Gàidhlig ann an Dùn Èideann – àite sòisealta is cultarail far am b’ urrainn do luchd na Gàidhlig tighinn còmhla airson diofar sheòrsaichean ghnìomhachdan is tachartasan Gàidhlig. Dè na buannachdan a dh’fhaodadh a bhith an lùib mòr-ionad Gàidhlig agus dè a […]

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Some Good News for Gaelic

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More on the #ScottishCensus2022. Some good news for Gaelic. The census shows us that: 2.5% of people aged 3+ had some skills in Gaelic in 2022. This is an increase of 43,100 since 2011. The percentage of 3 to 15 year olds with Gaelic skills doubled from 1.3% to 2.9%. Small changes sure, but an […]

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An Open Letter to Defend Gaelic

Le Bella Caledonia Editor

As Misneachd writes: “There will not be a second chance to preserve Gaelic as a spoken vernacular language in Scotland.” This is an Open Letter to Jenny Gilruth and Shona Robison which you are invited to draw on and submit your own letter to the ministers in opposition to the cuts to community development workers […]

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Community of Contested Discourse in the Gaelic Development Debate

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The editor of Bella Caledonia contacted me at the end of last week about a vigorous debate around “Gaelic” in relation to the Gàidhealtachd, and with the Gàidhealtachd referring to the grounding in which the Gaelic language – and a great deal more – might be said to live, and move, and have its being. […]

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The Celtics

Le Bella Caledonia Editor

If you’ve been spending any time in the Gaelic or Gaelic-adjacent parts of Twitter over the last few days, you’ve probably been made unpleasantly aware of a filmmaker in the United States who has been trying to raise money to make a Celtic-themed television series.  If you haven’t been spending time in the Gaelic or […]

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