Government proposals to support Gaelic and Scots languages
The Scottish Government now has a Scots language policy. Further support for Scots is found in the Council of Europe’s European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and in the valuable information obtained from the Scots question in the last census. Scots features prominently in education, publishing and the arts and a number of small bodies, with support from Government, are working closely to make further progress for Scots. This consultation exercise will help inform the next steps for Scots.
With the Scottish Government’s commitments and the work that will follow this consultation there is another opportunity to build on the good progress that has been made and to strengthen Gaelic and Scots in Scotland by increasing the numbers of people learning, speaking and using these languages in Scotland.