This is the best summary I could come up with:
Gaelic-language campaigners and MSPs have protested furiously about plans to axe a network of Gaelic community workers, raising fresh fears about the survival of the language.
The job losses have alarmed activists, who said these development workers were essential to their efforts to promote and reinvigorate the language and Gaelic communities, after decades of decline.
One senior source said many felt “betrayed”, partly because the cuts had been imposed by Scottish National party ministers, who many assumed would be particularly attuned to the cultural and political case for protecting Gaelic.
Yet Bòrd na Gàidhlig and MG Alba, a government-funded agency for Gaelic-language television, film and radio, have warned that they have shouldered consistent cuts in real-terms funding, putting their services under severe strain.
The University of Aberdeen faced strike action by lecturers on Tuesday after heavily cutting Gaelic and modern languages teaching following a slump in student numbers.
“The reduction in funding for Bòrd na Gàidhlig exacerbates an already dire situation for the Gaelic language, whose preservation is vital not only to our cultural heritage but also to the vibrancy and future of our community,” they said.
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Even as a Scot,
the Gaelic language, whose preservation is vital not only to our cultural heritage but also to the vibrancy and future of our community
Away and dinnae talk shite. It’s a totally unnecessary, pointless language and that’s why it’s dying. Stop hoovering up taxpayer’s money and get a real fuckin job. And stop putting Gaelic on roadsigns too, what an absolute waste of money 😂
Pòg mo thòn. Tha Gàidhlig sgoinneil!
What’s “the point” of any language? What’s the point in Dutch? Every Dutch person seems to know English fluently, so why do they continue to speak in Dutch if there’s only Dutch speakers around? Could it be because they’re free to speak in whatever fucking language they like and they prefer that one?
Gaelic has been destroyed over a long period of time, from romanticised Red Coat colonial oppression at the end of a musket to more recent “you must speak properly or you get the cane” oppression in 1960/70s children’s classrooms. That’s why it’s required government intervention to get back on its feet again. It’s our language whether we know it anymore or not. But it’s still alive (just), and it’s ours to take care of.
You may not speak it, you may not understand it, but Gaelic has as much right to be written and spoken in this country as English does.
Oh and that tax money you’re complaining about is also paid by Gaelic speakers, so if they want to see the name of their town or village in it’s original form on road signs as opposed to an anglicised butchering then that seems fair enough to me.
Ach pish. People speak Dutch. Virtually nobody speaks Gaelic.
Aye, the census says there’s 50,000 speakers, but it also said there are a million jedi. How many of those ‘speakers’ know more than a couple of phrases and/or use it daily? Four? Ok five.
Put a pillow over its face and slowly suffocate Gaelic to death, it’s the humane thing to do, same wi pandas
