Call for participants
Survey on minoritised languages in Scotland

If you speak Scottish Gaelic, Scots, and/or Shaetlan, you are invited to share your experiences, knowledge, and perspectives. This research will contribute to reversing language decline and strengthening linguistic diversity across Europe

https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/media/2026-news/call-for-participants-survey-on-minoritised-languages-in-scotland.html

#Scotland #Scottish #language #minoritylanguages #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #Shaetlan #Shetland

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
#BBCALBA

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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 🔍
Instagram: https://instagram.com/bbc.alba
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Coimhead air: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/w9fMvDAB-rw

#Gàidhlig #Gaelic

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@goibhniu/116177759239408520

#Gaeilge #Mastodaoine #Spéirghorm #Irish #Ireland #Languages #MinorityLanguages #Europe #Archive #History #Films #Film

“[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

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

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

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