Language learning app Duolingo has launched the beta version of its new Scottish Gaelic course, with more than 20,000 people already signed up. An endangered language, Scottish Gaelic is predominately ...

A free online service has more users learning Scottish Gaelic than the number of people who speak the language in its first week, according to the app’s developers. The Scottish Gaelic course was ...

Pupils will be taught Scots to see if it can help improve attainment. Children at Banff Academy in Aberdeenshire have teamed up with the University of Aberdeen for the study. It will examine whether ...

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Young bats adopt a specific 'dialect' spoken by their own colonies, even when this dialect differs from the bat 'mother tongue,' a new study shows. By offering insight into the evolutionary origins of ...

Zookeepers at Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo began a fascinating social experiment in 2010: They put a group of chimpanzees raised locally in the Netherlands together with a group of chimps raised in ...

The Scots language is in danger of dying out, experts have predicted. Language-learning app Busuu researchers have named 12 UK and European languages that are at risk of extinction in a bid to ...

Foreign language subjects are being squeezed out of many secondary school timetables in Scotland, analysis from BBC Scotland's The Nine can reveal. More than half of the schools that responded to the ...

Key Scottish companies and young Scots are losing out due to the spiralling decline in school leavers with language qualifications, a ...

Young bats adopt a specific "dialect" spoken by their own colonies, even when this dialect differs from the bat "mother tongue," a new study publishing 31 October in the open access journal PLOS ...