Consultations

The Language Sciences Institute of the University of the Highlands and Islands

The Language Sciences Institute of the University of the Highlands and Islands connects innovation and expertise in research and learning with the multi-disciplinary strengths of the UHI academic network to reconfigure current approaches to the revitalisation of minority languages. The Language Sciences Institute has a particular focus on the traditional Gaelic speaking communities of Scotland.  

The Language Sciences Institute provides a focus for informed debate and discussion on factors in relation to creating a sustainable future for Gaelic as a communal and social identity. The Institute also provides a forum for facilitating engagement in a meaningful and positive way with the traditional language community and with the new Gaelic communities emerging within the larger urban conurbations of Scotland. The Language Sciences Institute has a central role in researching and informing national policy in this area of language planning in Scotland.  Institute staff work across specific university disciplines to address increasingly complex social and global problems of sustaining minority languages and cultures in an integrated way.

Bòrd na Gàidhlig consultation on the next National Gaelic Plan 2023-2028

Please read our response to the consultation:Review_draft_NationalGaelicLanguagePlan2023-28

The Scottish Government Commitments to Gaelic and Scots and a Scottish Languages Bill

Please read our responses to the consultation questions