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--- languages:gaelic_in_scotland [2020/03/23 14:40] – [National legislation:] ydwine
+++ languages:gaelic_in_scotland [2025/06/18 10:22] (current) – [Language vitality according to:] ydwine
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 ==== Language vitality according to: ====
-^ [[http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/|UNESCO]] ^ [[https://www.ethnologue.com/language/gla|Ethnologue]] ^ [[http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/3049|Endangered Languages]] ^
-| {{ :endangerment:yellow.png?nolink |Definitely endangered}} | {{ :endangerment:purple.png?nolink |}} | {{ :endangerment:orange.png?nolink |Vulnerable}} |
+^ [[https://en.wal.unesco.org/languages/scottish-gaelic|UNESCO]] ^ [[https://www.ethnologue.com/language/gla|Ethnologue]] ^ [[http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/lang/3049|Endangered Languages]] ^  [[https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/scot1245|Glottolog]]  ^
+|  {{:endangerment:orange.png?nolink|Definitely endangered}}  |  {{:endangerment:green.png?nolink|Institutional}}  |  {{:endangerment:yellow.png?nolink|Threatened}}  |  {{:endangerment:orange.png?nolink|Shifting}}  |
+<sup> Click [[manual:colour_codes|here]] for a full overview of the language vitality colour codes. </sup>
 ==== Linguistic aspects: ====
   * Indo-European → Celitic. See [[http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/scot1245|scot1245]] at [[http://glottolog.org/|Glottolog]] for more information.
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   * names Gaelic an official language of Scotland;
   * assigns to the [[http://www.gaidhlig.org.uk/bord/|Bòrd na Gàidhlig]] the responsibility to promote Gaelic, monitor its development, and to maintain a language plan.
-  * defines education:
+  * defines education a) in the use and understanding of; b) about; or c) by means of the Gaelic language((Scottish Parliament. (2005). //Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005.// Retrieved from [[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/7/contents]].)).
-    * a) in the use and understanding of;
-    * b) about; or
+Every five years, Bòrd na Gàidhlig makes a [[https://www.gaidhlig.scot/bord/the-national-gaelic-language-plan/|National Gaelic Language Plan]].
-    * c) by means of the Gaelic language((Scottish Parliament. (2005). //Gaelic Language (Scotland) Act 2005.// Retrieved from [[http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2005/7/contents]].)).
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 ====== Education in practice ======
 According to the census from 2011, 2500 children will be learning Gaelic in 2012 and 2013, opposed to 24 children in 1985.((Goalabre, Fabienne, ‘Immersion Education and the Revitalisation of Breton and Gaelic as Community Languages’, in Policy and Planning for Endangered Languages)). In 2007 MacCaluim (2007) estimated that about 700 learners obtained fluency.
+For primary education, in 2018-2019 there are:
+  * 58 Gaelic Medium Education departments or dedicated schools total
+  * 7 dedicated Gaelic schools: 3 in Glasgow, and 1 in Inverness, Edinburgh, Lochaber, and Portree
+  * 3,457 pupils total attending Gaelic Medium Education((Bòrd na Gàidhlig. (n.d.). //Primary Education//. [[https://www.gaidhlig.scot/bord/education/primary-education/]].))
+For secondary education, in 2018-2019 there are:
+  * 31 schools in Scotland which offer Gàidhlig for fluent speakers and/or other Gaelic medium subjects;
+  * 31 schools which offer Gaelic (Learners);
+  * the subjects English, French, Geography, History, Home Economics, Mathematics, Modern Studies, PE, Personal and Social Education, Religious Education, Science and Technology are taught at different levels through the medium of Gaelic((Bòrd na Gàidhlig. (n.d.). //Secondary Education//. [[https://www.gaidhlig.scot/bord/education/secondary-education/]].)).
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