Skye Gaelic
Skye Gaelic is a critically endangered dialect of Scottish Gaelic spoken in the Isle of Skye. As of 2012, it was spoken by approximately 9% of Gaelic medium teachers.[1] As of 2021, the use of Gaelic on the Isle of Skye was reportedly undergoing a process of revitalisation.[2]
Further reading
[edit]- Borgstrøm, Carl Hj. (1941), The dialects of Skye and Ross-shire, A linguistic survey of the dialects of Scotland, vol. 2, Oslo, Norway: Norwegian Universities Press
- Robertson, Charles Moncrieff (1898). "Skye Gaelic". Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness. Gaelic Society of Inverness. pp. 54–89.
- Smith-Christmas, C.; Smakman, D. (2009). "Gaelic on Skye: Older speakers' identity in a language-shift situation". International Journal of the Sociology of Language (200): 27–47 – via scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Gaelic dialects 'dying out', Edinburgh academic warns". bbc.co.uk. February 10, 2012.
- ↑ "Skye seeks to become 'stronghold' of Gaelic with help of island shops and hotels". scotsman.com. 16 December 2021.