Sentence examples for gaelic speakers from inspiring English sources

In addition, there were about 500 Gaelic speakers in Nova Scotia in the early 1980s.

But the use of the word còsagach in this context has surprised and perplexed native Gaelic speakers across Scotland.

Seven out of 10 Gaelic speakers in Scotland watch BBC Alba every week, which is the same reach that BBC1 enjoys nationally.

The Islamic Cultural Center in Dublin will translate the Koran into Gaelic because of the growing demand from Gaelic speakers among the country's 18,000 Muslims.

The overall number of Gaelic speakers, heavily concentrated in the Western Isles, has fallen by 1,000 since 2001 to 58,000 (1.1% of the overall population).

By 1755, Gaelic speakers numbered only 23% of the Scottish population, which had shrunk by 1901 to 4.5% and 100 years later to 1.2%.

He has hinterland: as author, intellectual, cultural commentator, Gaelic speaker and wit.

Instead of saying "I love you," a Gaelic speaker would say, in effect, "I am melting for you".

He was not a native Gaelic speaker like Crichton Smith (who disliked Hay's "exhortatory" poetry), but began to acquire the language at an early age.

Brìghde Chaimbeul, a 20-year-old Gaelic speaker from Skye, was introduced to the pipe family as a child by a Greek neighbour.

He was raised on Skye as a bilingual Gaelic speaker, was an enthusiast for shinty (a Scottish variation of hurling ) and vice chief of the Camanachd Association, the sport's governing body.