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Twilight of the archaic9/5/2023 "We are hellishly close to the precipice edge," said Allan Campbell of Comunn na Gaidhlig (Gaelic Development Agency). If it falls below 50,000 Gaelic will be considered officially dead. Today, figures from the 2001 census are expected to show that the number of Scotland's Gaelic speakers has fallen below 60,000 for the first time, a 15% decline in a decade. But most of his political colleagues and 99% of Scots did not understand a word, because he spoke in Gaelic - and Gaelic, Scotland's mother tongue, is dying. Tha e criochnaiche" - "the landowners' day is over. As the Scottish parliament celebrated passing historic legislation on land reform recently, Alasdair Morrison, MSP for the Western Isles, rose to his feet and silenced the chamber with the words " tha latha an uachdarain seachad.
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