Gaelic speakers born overseas boost language in Scotland
The survival of Gaelic speaking in Scotland is being helped by a band of new speakers from Eastern Europe and Africa, it has emerged.
A second report on the 2011 Gaelic Census, released last week, has found a “notable” increase in speakers from new EU member states.
The overwhelming majority of the 56,500 Gaelic speakers in Scotland (95.6 per cent) were born in the UK
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Hide AdHowever, the number of speakers from new EU countries has risen from 0.03 per cent in 2001 to 1.1 per cent in 2011.