mailidhonn:

mailidhonn:

Good evening everybody! Just in case you’d all thought I’d had enough and shut up about Gàidhlig I’m here to prove you wrong.

Today Edinburgh City Council posted about Gàidhlig, in Gàidhlig.

This is great and it’s wonderful to see, obviously.

Here are some of the responses.

Obviously there were Gàidhlig responses and several supportive English responses too. But I want to highlight some of what Gàidhlig speakers are subject to when the language is even used in a public sphere. Even just *seeing* it seems to set people off.

This has a very real impact on people, don’t think that it doesn’t. Someone please tell me why a language and culture deserves this much hatred on a regular basis? Do the native speakers of this language really deserve this being thrown at them?

Scotland’s a progressive and left wing nation, it welcomes all peoples, cultures and languages!