BBC Alba: The Guarani People - Trusadh: Is Mise Loretta | BBC ALBA

Teachdaireachd cumhachdach, gun teagamh sam bith ❤️💪
For the full conversation head to BBC ALBA’s YouTube, or watch Is Mise Loretta on iPlayer now.
#minoritylanguages #gaelic #guarani #saopaulo #brazil #scottishgaelic
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Làrach a ' phrògraim 👉 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sgbgd

Fo-sgrìobh gu BBC ALBA agus brùth air a' 🔔 👉 https://bit.ly/BBCALBAsubscribe 
Faic seo agus barrachd air BBC iPlayer 👉 https://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/bbcalba

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Lean sinn air sòisealtan eile 🔍
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Coimhead air: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w9fMvDAB-rw

#Gàidhlig #Gaelic

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Compelling stories

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“[Shane] Strachan sees Scots’s revitalization being driven in part by young people’s desire for, as he puts it, ‘what’s left that makes you different’ in an era of social media homogenization. A new generation of Scots speakers wants to talk about what’s happening in the world, in their own words.”

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/scots-language-social-media-tiktok

#Scottish #Scotland #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguages

Can social media resurrect the Scots language?

Inside the decidedly modern campaign to revitalize a lost language (that some say isn’t truly a language).

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Who Speaks Scots Where: What Crowdsourcing Reveals
2 February, Edinburgh Futures Institute – free

Jennifer Smith & Brian Aitken present findings from a new crowdsourced resource – Speak for Yersel – which sets out to map dialect use in Scots throughout Scotland

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-speaks-scots-where-what-crowdsourcing-reveals-tickets-1975120018143

#Scotland #Scottish #language #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguages #linguistics

Who Speaks Scots Where: What Crowdsourcing Reveals

In this paper, Jennifer Smith and Brian Aitken present findings from a new crowdsourced resource - Speak for Yersel

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If we lose our languages, do we lose ourselves?
21 Feb, free online

Investigating how languages travel with people through migration, conflict, economic pressures, & chance; reflecting on the love & connection languages bring; & the losses that can come with changing languages or disappearance

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/if-we-lose-our-languages-do-we-lose-ourselves-online-tickets-1976704651825

#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #BSL #minoritylanguages #immigration #belonging

If we lose our languages, do we lose ourselves? | Online

An exploration of how languages shift with identity across Scotland

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“Kilmarnock”. Psalm 16: 8–9
from SALM vol. 1 – Gaelic Psalms from the Hebrides of Scotland. Ridge Records, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_belSyGmVFk&list=OLAK5uy_koAuFlIbZeSiXh24WmWK5-7tnrntk-Y6s&index=2

#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #song #singing #spalmsinging #psalms #psalm16 #minoritylanguages

Kilmarnock. Psalm 16: 8-9 (Live)

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We went each Sunday for the mass
recited in my parent’s language
that wasn’t mine. The Gaelic gospel

that was just sound, pure sound, to me.
I rose and kneeled, and listened as
my people traded vowel for vowel…

—Niall Campbell, “Tongues of Water”
published in THE ISLAND IN THE SOUND (Bloodaxe Books, 2024)

https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/the-island-in-the-sound-1361

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #minoritylanguages

A Friendship From Gallipolis leads to Ohio State’s First Welsh Club

Friendships shape everyday life, but three Ohio State students turned theirs into something new: the university’s first and only Welsh language club.  Clwb Cymraeg, or “Welsh Club,” reflects their shared bond and passion for preserving and sharing the language.  Rhys Davis, a second-year in integrated language arts/English education, Connor Davis, a second-year in psychology and […]

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Ath-theangachadh?
Spàinis air a dubhadh às an Dùthaich nam Basgach.

Re-tonguing?
Spanish language blacked out on roadsigns in the Basque Country.

#Euskera #Euskadi #Gàidhlig #Gaelic #MinorityLanguages #languages #MastoDaoine

Liz Lochhead reads “Kidspoem/Bairnsang” for Media Matters (2010)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2PfrDrAIR0

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #scots #language #MinorityLanguages

Liz Lochhead: 'Kidspoem/Bairnsang'

This video, of Scottish poet, Liz Lochhead, reading one of her most popular poems - Kidspoem/Bairnsang - is one of over thirty short videos included on the C...

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