Gaelic language
1Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005 — The Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2005 is the first piece of legislation to give formal recognition to the Scottish Gaelic language.The Gaelic Language Act aims to secure Gaelic as an official language of… …
2Scots Gaelic language — also called Scottish Gaelic , Scots Gaelic Gàidhlig a member of the Goidelic group of Celtic languages, spoken along the northwest coast of Scotland and in the Hebrides islands. Australia, the United States, and Canada (particularly Nova …
3Gaelic medium education — (GME) is a form of education in Scotland that sees pupils taught primarily via the medium of Scottish Gaelic with English being taught as the secondary language. Similar forms of education exist in the two other Gaelic speaking countries, Ireland …
4Scottish Gaelic language — Celtic language of northern Scotland, a descendant of the Irish speech introduced into northern Britain by invaders in the 4th–5th centuries. Gaelic gradually supplanted Pictish (see Picts) as well as the British Celtic Lowlands dialects, and by… …
5Language immersion — is a method of teaching a second language (also called L2, or the target language). Unlike a more traditional language course, where the target language is simply the subject material, language immersion uses the target language as a teaching… …
6Gaelic — Gael ic (?; 277), a. [Gael. G[ a]idhealach, Gaelach, from G[ a]idheal, Gael, a Scotch Highlander.] (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language. [1913 Webster] …
7Gaelic revival — For the Gaelic resurgence to overthrow English supremacy in the 14th 16th century, see: Gaelic resurgence. Early gaelic revival Gaelic revival (Irish: An tAthbheochan Gaelach ) refers to the late nineteenth century interest in the Gaelic language …
8Gaelic broadcasting in Scotland — The issue of Gaelic broadcasting in Scotland has acquired some considerable symbolic importance. Opinion polls show that the vast majority of Gaels feel they have been ill served by broadcasting media, and the ideal of a dedicated BBC Alba TV… …
9Gaelic-speaking congregations in the Church of Scotland — A few Church of Scotland congregations, mainly in the Western Isles, have regular Sunday services in Gaelic. There are Gaelic speaking congregations of other denominations too, mainly in the Western Isles. These include the Roman Catholic Church …
10Language death — In linguistics, language death (also language extinction or linguistic extinction, and rarely linguicide or glottophagy[1]) is a process that affects speech communities where the level of linguistic competence that speakers possess of a given… …
