#3868. Scottish Gaelic revitalisation: Progress and aspiration

September 2026publication date
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Philosophy;
Language and Linguistics;
History and Philosophy of Science;
Linguistics and Language;
Sociology and Political Science;
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Abstract:
This review considers the revitalisation programme for Scottish Gaelic which has gathered pace since the 1980s. Frequent waves of migration from Scotland have led to diasporic populations of Gaelic speakers. The texts reviewed here document the process of language shift but especially focus on revitalisation efforts undertaken in order to increase speaker numbers and also increase the contexts and usage of Gaelic. As both works demonstrate, the revitalisation programme has its origins in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but really gained momentum in the 1980s with the advent of increased Gaelic broadcasting, education in Gaelic, and the subsequent Gaelic Language Act in 2005, which gave Gaelic in Scotland equal legal status to English. Together, these will be useful for those working in other minority language contexts, linguistic anthropology, and language policy.
Keywords:
Scottish Gaelic Language; Revitalisation; Linguistic Anthropology; Language Policy

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