New School Aims to Preserve Gaelic
From Times Wire Reports
Scotland opened its first all-Gaelic public primary school in hopes of saving one of Europe’s oldest languages from extinction. The 109 students at the Ashley Street Gaelic School in Glasgow will have all their classes in Gaelic until the third grade, when they will be offered English as a separate course. Once the language of most Scots, Gaelic has been in sharp decline. It is now spoken by only about 60,000 people--mostly across central Scotland and in the Highlands and Western Isles.
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