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Mediating Multilingualism by Sharing Gaelic Voices
Gordon Wells, Soillse Project Manager
International Language Fest on Indigenous and Endangered Languages
Department of Linguistics, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong
25th October 2019
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Gaelic: Why Island Voices?
For Scotland as a whole, the proportion of the population aged 3 and over able to speak Gaelic was 1.1 per cent (58,000 people). The council areas with the highest proportions able to speak Gaelic were Na h-Eileanan Siar (52 per cent), Highland (5 per cent) and Argyll & Bute (4 per cent).
http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/documents/censusresults/release2a/StatsBulletin2A.pdf Accessed August 2018
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Gaelic: Why Island Voices?
In 2011, the proportion of the population aged 3 and over in Scotland who could speak, read, write OR understand Gaelic was 1.7 per cent (87,000). Within this group, the number of people who could speak, read AND write Gaelic in 2011 was 32,000, 0.6 per cent of the population aged 3 and over.
http://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/documents/censusresults/release2a/StatsBulletin2A.pdfAccessed August 2018
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Island Voices Videos
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Phase One: Series One
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Phase One: Series Two
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Phase Two: Community Creation
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English Version
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Other Tongues
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Audio tracks