Sentences with phrase «gaelic speakers»

But in the last decade especially, there has been a movement to boost the numbers of Gaelic speakers, with Gaelic radio programs and Gaelic weather reports — even Gaelic playgroups for kids.

And if more parents who speak Gaelic start passing it on to their kids, lifting the number of native Gaelic speakers, the number of new bilinguals needed could fall by half.

Put them all together into a system of equations that describe the growth of the three different groups — English speakers, Gaelic speakers, and bilinguals — and you can calculate what inputs are required for a stable bilingual population to emerge.

Not exact matches

They chose Scottish Gaelic as a good test case, because there are more than 100 years of data on the number of speakers and their demographics.

In 2010, Kandler found that using the most current numbers, a total of 860 English speakers will have to learn Gaelic each year for the number of speakers to stay the same.

To her, this sounded like a lot, but the national Gaelic Development Agency was pleased: it's about the number of bilingual speakers they were already aiming to produce through classes and programs, a spokesman told The Scotsman when Kandler's study came out.