Scottish Gaelic, one of the Western world's least spoken languages, could get a boost toward survival from Microsoft. Speakers of the ancient tongue -- used by just 58,650 people and falling -- plan ...

Language learning app Duolingo has launched the beta version of its new Scottish Gaelic course, with more than 20,000 people already signed up. An endangered language, Scottish Gaelic is predominately ...

Ireland has long debated the place of the Irish language in the nation. Some see the ancient Celtic tongue as part of the nation’s soul: Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam: A country without a language is a ...

Tim Armstrong wrote a novel about a rock band. That’s not so unusual, except his sci-fi story finds its characters on a distant moon and in a luxury spaceship. It’s science fiction, after all. If that ...

All over the world, there are people who have roots in Scotland. There are even some settlements in far-off countries that celebrate their Scottish heritage thanks to our huge diaspora. As recently ...

Jennifer Mattschey is affiliated with the University of Strathclyde and the Open University. When we talk about bilingualism, we often assume that people are equally fluent in both languages and use ...

Auditions are now underway for next May's Eurovision Song Contest — that often-ridiculed television spectacle that has drawn millions of viewers around the world every year since 1956. In 2012 the ...