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.

Schools across Scotland invited to contribute to help track evolving picture of international language education. The Language Trends Scotland survey is now open for 2025-26, building on the success ...

Jennifer Mattschey is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde and the Open University. When we talk about bilingualism, we often assume that people are equally fluent in both languages and use ...

The tiny island of Inchkeith, which lies around 3 miles north of Edinburgh in middle of Scotland’s Firth of Forth, has had a long and turbulent history. In the 12th century, the island was first used ...

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Seven-year-old Lachlan Brain faces deportation from Scotland later this month despite being fluent in Gaelic, the Celtic language native to Scotland that is very closely linked to the Irish language.

I was born and raised in Glasgow, Scotland's largest city. I've lived in both London and the USA, but Scotland has always had my heart. Here's why you should make my home country the next stop on your ...