'Saved': a surge of new learners gives Scots Gaelic a second wind
Campaigners say Scots Gaelic has reached a turning point, with a surge of new learners taking up the language in classrooms, apps and community classes across Scotland. For a language long described as endangered, the wave of young and adult learners is the strongest sign in years that Gaelic is not just being preserved in books — it is being spoken, sung and lived again.
The upbeat factora language survives one new speaker at a time — and right now, they are arriving in crowds.
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