The Scottish government-backed project is called Tog - which means "to raise" in Gaelic.

The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.

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.

Doric, a little-known form of North East Scots, is undergoing a pandemic-inspired renaissance. “Slaverin, slubberin, gibberin, gabberin, roon wi a wallop, a sklyter, a sweel,” recited the poet.

Teaching a modern language in the UK was once described by the eminent languages educator Eric Hawkins as “gardening in a gale”. But as a languages teacher, the well documented decline in pupils ...

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 ...

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 ...

The growing number of multilingual speakers in Scotland are being sidelined by the country’s census which portrays a “monolingual English-only speaking country”, experts have warned. Did you know with ...

As an American visiting Scotland for the first time, I encountered surprising language differences. While grocery shopping, I learned that "mince" means ground beef and "rocket" is arugula. I wasn't ...