When Still Wakes the Deep isn’t delivering accursed, heart-pounding horror, it’s offering an expletive-filled primer in the Scottish language. Verisimilitude, of place, period, and slang ...

A study published in January 2024 by language learning platform Preply found that the Shetland dialect is the hardest in the ...

The attendance of Edwin Poots and Gordon Lyons at an event at Stormont celebrating Irish language week sent a positive signal ...

It is a collaboration between National Museums Scotland and Sabhal Mor Ostaig, the National Centre for Gaelic Language and ...

A new multilingual book festival celebrating the “richness of communication” of Scottish languages is to take place on the Isle of Skye. Sgrìobh Fèis Litricheais/Book Festival will celebrate ...

(Of course, the Latin names preserve other stories). There is not so much about Scottish languages, and I feel that yoking Gaelic with Tamil is perhaps unwise. Brutal though the treatment of ...

English, Gaelic and Welsh are the top three languages spoken in the UK. And at Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) we pride ourselves on providing free, advice for everyone. Whether it’s through ...

Irish language campaigners have welcomed the decision by the UK government to repeal an almost 300-year-old ban on the use of ...

Language and Literacy (England), Languages (Scotland), Language, Literacy and Communication Skills (Wales) and Language and Literacy (Northern Ireland). Craft and Cooking can help children to ...

Fhiona Mackay, Director of Scotland’s National Centre for Languages (SCILT) based in Strathclyde, is one of the project's key researchers. She said that for the project to reach its potential, ...

A number of events have been held in the south of Scotland to mark World Gaelic Week, as the region celebrates it's linguistic heritage.

A Scottish regional accent has been named the most difficult in the world to imitate, even for professionals, according to language experts. Scotland is home to a variety of distinctive accents ...