The impact of bilingual road signs on motorists must be reviewed before any more are erected, the transport minister has said.
Stewart Stevenson was responding to a call from Highland Council for more English-Gaelic signage on trunk roads.
Mr Stevenson said there was anecdotal evidence of motorists performing u-turns on the carriageway after misreading the signs.
The report [...]

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Fiosrachadh mu na tha dol ann an Dun Eidean. Tuilleadh bhon cheangal. Tha fiosrachadh mar seo cho feumail!
Info from Com-pàirteachas Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann (Edinburgh Gaelic Partnership)
Sunday 01.03.09 – 12.30pm Weekly Gaelic service, Greyfriars Kirk, Greyfriars Place. Mr John A. Macmillan. (Cont: 225 1900).
Tuesday 03.03.09 – 7.30pm Gaelic Conversation Circle – SNP Rooms, North St. Andrew [...]

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Ach, a bheil iad a’ faighinn cothroman an cànain a chleachdadh? Gun chothroman choimhearsnachd, no rudan cool sna meadhanan, eil foghlam gu feum??
There has been a 6% rise in the number of school pupils in Scotland being taught through Gaelic-medium education.
Scottish Government figures reveal 2,766 pupils received some or all of their tuition in the [...]

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Let’s pull our finger out and fix it then!
GAELIC has been listed as a ‘threatened’ language in a new study just published. UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation – refers to Scottish Gaelic as one of the hundreds of languages in danger of disappearing.
The information is detailed in UNESCO’s [...]

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By ADRIAN DARBYSHIRE
THE Manx language is very much alive – whatever the United Nations might say
Manx is listed as extinct in a new edition of the Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger produced by the UN’s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation UNESCO.
It’s news that may come as a surprise to the pupils of the [...]

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