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The Scottish Government have announced an ambitious plan to utilize the state bureaucracy to support Scots Gaelic. Under proposals, every directorate at the government will be involved in increasing the use of Gaelic in the organisation.

Cymdeithas yr Iaith (CYI) , The Welsh Language Society,  have long  been calling for the abolition of the concept of “Welsh as a Second Language”, and have instead called for reforms to ensure that every pupil is given the opportunity through the education system to be educated in the medium of  Welsh. The CYI action plan includes:

From The Celtic Language News:

"This small victory is perhaps the expression of a more profound ideological shift in French society. Today, few understand the government’s obsession for maintaining a hierarchy between languages. The most evident discriminations toward minority languages are deemed unfair and the more the State mistreats these languages, the more support they gain within the population."

From The Celtic Language News:

The number of young people being educated through Irish in Ulster has passed 7,000 for the first time. Comhairle na Gaelscolaíochta (CnaG) said new figures highlighted the significant growth that the Irish-medium sector was experiencing. The council said local committees and activists deserved huge praise for their commitment to ensuring Irish-medium education was available in every county in the north.

From The Celtic Language News:

On 8 April 2021, the French National Assembly has witnessed a small revolution with the adoption, against the government’s opinion, of a law aimed to protect and promote regional languages. This law was drafted and supported by Paul Molac, Member of the Parliament from the Regions and Peoples with Solidarity party from the constituency of Ploërmel, Brittany. This adoption undermines the French State’s Jacobinism.

From The Celtic Language News

The Scottish National Party has liad out plans to secure the future of Gaelic by exploring the creation of a recognised Gaelic-speaking area. 

The party said it will work to ensure Gaelic flourishes throughout the country as well as in its traditional heartlands.

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From The Celtic Language News:

The rural housing crisis is threatening our future, claim activists from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Isle of Man and Cornwall who have united in a cross-border plea over the survival of Celtic languages. They’ve drawn up a Celtic Charter that asserts a “right to a home” for speakers of these languages in their geographical heartlands. However, they say high costs and the proliferation of holiday lets in rural areas means the tongues themselves may soon be driven from those areas.

The City of Edinburgh has launched a consultation with Gaelic interest groups to lay the groundwork for the expansion of Gaelic Medium secondary education. As concerns mount for the health of the language in its heartlands, Gaelic Medium education continues its steady progress in the rest of Scotland. Glasgow has seen explosive growth in the past 10 years and now Edinburgh.

Scotland’s “The National” quotes a city official in describing the context of expanding Gaelic education in Edinburgh: