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In a 2010 Scottish Government study, 85% of respondents noted they speak Scots. [27] According to the 2011 census, 1,541,693 people can speak Scots in Scotland, approximately 30% of the population. [2] The 2011 census asked people to specify the language that they used at home. [28]
Scottish Gaelic (/ ˈ ɡ æ l ɪ k /, GAL-ik; endonym: Gàidhlig [ˈkaːlɪkʲ] ⓘ), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland. As a Goidelic language, Scottish Gaelic, as well as both Irish and Manx, developed out of Old Irish ...
This is a list of council areas of Scotland ordered by the number of Scottish Gaelic speakers. Rank Council area Speakers Population ... Irish language in Northern ...
Canadian Gaelic dialects of Scottish Gaelic are still spoken by Gaels in parts of Atlantic Canada, primarily on Cape Breton Island and nearby areas of Nova Scotia. In 2011, there were 1,275 Gaelic speakers in Nova Scotia, [20] and 300 residents of the province considered a Gaelic language their "mother tongue." [21]
The two comparatively "major" Gaelic nations in the modern era are Ireland (which had 71,968 "daily" Irish speakers and 1,873,997 people claiming "some ability of Irish", as of the 2022 census) [56] and Scotland (58,552 fluent "Gaelic speakers" and 92,400 with "some Gaelic language ability" in the 2001 census). [57]
1831 A Dictionary of the Gaelic Language by Dr Norman MacLeod and Dr Daniel Dewar - (Glasgow, 1833: digitised version at National Library of Scotland) 1832 Pronouncing Gaelic Dictionary by Neil MacAlpine; 1842 Gaelic-English Dictionary by Father Ewen MacEachan (based on MacLeod & Dewar); 4th edition in 1922; 1845 Pronouncing Gaelic Dictionary ...
Some people in the north and west of mainland Scotland and many people in the Hebrides still speak Scottish Gaelic, but the language has been in decline. There are now believed to be approximately 60,000 native speakers of Scottish Gaelic in Scotland, plus around 1,000 speakers of the Canadian Gaelic dialect in Nova Scotia.
The 2011 census of Scotland showed that a total of 57,375 people (1.1% of the Scottish population aged over three years old) in Scotland could speak Gaelic at that time, with the Outer Hebrides being the main stronghold of the language. The census results indicate a decline of 1,275 Gaelic speakers from 2001.