Have a look at the war memorial in Fortingall.Anyway, many of our road signs are already bilingual.Some people bristle when they see place names translated from English but, mostly, it’s the other way around. They go between those two worlds but it’s normal.”“People think the promotion of Gaelic is all a nationalist plot but, actually, it was three Unionist parties that began this work. Not only learners need to be persuaded of its merits, but also many of those who have it or had it as their native tongue. Even on Lewis, probably destined to be the last bastion of Gaelic, you will be lucky to hear it being publicly spoken in the main town of Stornoway. Of the 50,000 Gaels registered in the census of 2011, it is reckoned only something over 10,000 use it as an everyday language
MORE than 58,000 individuals reported themselves as Gaelic speakers in the Scottish census of 2011. They also funded broadcasting.
But in Gaeldom this is becoming scarcely possible. The best way to learn any language is not to look it up in books but to go where it is spoken and hold conversations with the "YOLO," "Bae," "what's your number?" It’s a dead language, some claim. Locations were translated from Gaelic in the first place.Auchenshuggle, in the east end of Glasgow, is Achadh an t-Seagall, or the field of rye.Edinburgh suburb Craigentinny is the rock of the fox, and Crossmyloof, in Glasgow’s southside, is the cross of St Liubha.Even deep down in the south-west, Galloway is Gall Ghaidhealaibh — the foreign Gaels.Shona MacLennan is chief executive of Bòrd na Gàidhlig, the body charged with promoting the Gaelic language.She admits she may almost understand why seeing “Polis” written on a police car gets some people’s backs up, but said: “There’s a feeling that Gaelic equals nationalism and nationalism equals Gaelic — but Gaelic speakers are as mixed politically as the rest of the population.“The Conservatives started Gaelic medium education long before devolution. By Gaelic, by itself, is sometimes used to refer to Scottish Gaelic, especially in Scotland, and so it is ambiguous. "But language is the words that express your culture and your philosophy. Or as we say in Irish, "tá agus níl." Even if we dislike the thought of a decline, it will be impossible to do much about it. MICHAEL Fry sees Gaelic as a language that is already dead and beyond the point where we can do anything about it. Shona insisted: “People were misled — there has been a strong legacy that Gaelic will hold you back. I know this because I have been one of them myself in the past.
Get all your questions answered in our special Irish language discussion. The language was in frequent use from humble parishioners right up into the sphere of higher education where, for example, at the Free Kirk College in Edinburgh, the eloquent presence of Professor Donald Macleod gave his native language a national prominence too. Go out to the west coast of the island and you will not hear much else, but the west coast is also the area of the island where the population is falling most rapidly.
It’s not a dead language.Huge efforts have been made to stamp it out — in 1616 an Act of Parliament ruled that Gaelic should be “abolishit and removit” from Scotland — but it survives and it’s growing back.Once upon a time, everyone spoke it round here — just ask Outlander star Sam Heughan, whose character Jamie Fraser is fond of a Gaelic phrase or two and has helped make the language known worldwide.Even as recently as a hundred years ago, large parts of Perthshire and Aberdeenshire were still Gaelic-speaking.You want to see bilingual signs? When I first started going to the village of Elgol on Skye in the 1980s it was pretty well 100% Gaelic-speaking. Just ther other day, my son and I were watching Fuine on BBC Alba so that we could get a recipe. Rather, it lies inside the vernacular community. "It’s not only normal, it is — literally — mind-expanding, according to Shona. #LNMS18 #Bliain2018 #SnaG18 Find more great phrases here: http://bit.ly/2tXFbxgWell, yes and no. Religion was one of the strongholds of the language, and not only because of the sheer number of Highland congregations, the result of Presbyterian schisms in the past. Why are we wasting all that money on bilingual road signs?So let’s start at the beginning.
That is why, for example, we invent Gaelic names for places that have never had them before – Inbhir Pheofharain for Dingwall or Margadh an Fheoir for Haymarket. An Italian speaker would see the world in a different way to an English speaker and the same is true for a Gaelic speaker.“There is no longer anyone who is solely a Gaelic speaker. These are examples of how the long-term crisis for Gaelic is no longer confined to the tension between the Lowland and the Highland, or the urban and the rustic, as in the old days.
The pattern is being repeated everywhere, and more intensively nowadays in lifestyle when so many forsake the rat race for the far blue yonder. Why no amount of effort can now stop Gaelic turning into a dead language.
The language is today being lost in particular private places that government can scarcely penetrate or influence. Although it was their first language, and despite their high degree of proficiency in it, as they grew older they have gradually stopped using it in one sphere after another. English was what was important, so it was claimed. And the results show in the network of Gaelic medium schools.Glasgow’s Gaelic School topped the league table as the best-performing local authority school in the city.More primary schools are springing up and kids are keen to join the resurgence.Shona continued: “People say Gaelic schools get the results because they are packed with middle-class kids.“Not in Glasgow they’re not. 32 comments. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times.
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