Gàidhlig speakers please...

Whereabouts in Scotland did you go? I'm from near Glasgow, and my family right through to the early ages were Scottish.... and can honestly say I do not know one word of Gaelic! I knew one girl at school who could speak it and that's it. It's sad how hold traditions die out, but that's how times are changing!

Sorry not to answer your question!

Haha.. I thought as much. But according to some literature, there are still people speaking it up north. Oh well.. but our bus driver's English was hard enough for me to understand ^_^

My landlady and her husband on Skye spoke Gaelic to each other when they wanted private conversation. Their Bible was Gaelic also. But this was 25 years ago.

When I went to the outer hebrides (Standing stones of Callanish), the bus driver and the locals he met (digging peat on the side of the road) all spoke Gaelic. I think you have to be in pretty remote areas to get people who consistantly speak it.

Correction to #3 -- it was 35 years ago.

Jeez.

It only really survives as a 'community' language in the Outer Hebrides and perhaps in a couple of places on Skye. Although numerically about half of speakers live in Glasgow.

Also, the language is 'Gaelic' in English (not Gaidhlig)