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Parliamentary Motions and Questions from Sessions 1 and 2
Motions
S2M-4940 Rob Gibson (Highlands and Islands) (SNP): Congratulations to Eejits That the Parliament congratulates Itchy Coo publications on the success of its book, Eejits, a best selling Scots translation of Roald Dahl's children's classic, The Twits, and on the work of its develop... more
Parliamentary Motions on the National Languages Strategy
S3M-1768.1 Hugh O’Donnell: International Education— As an amendment to motion (S3M-1768) in the name of Maureen Watt, insert at end "and calls for the Scottish Government to bring forward a comprehensive national languages strategy including a rolling programme to introduce a second langu... more
Parliamentary Questions about the National Language Strategy (Current Session)
All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament
S3W-8784 Cathy Peattie: To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to develop the proposals in the na... more
Shetland Times bookshop
Books in and about the Shetland dialect. This site also has more general material about Shetland.
www.shetlandtoday.co.uk/
Childrens books
Books for kids in Shetlandic and English.
www.shetlandtoday.co.uk/childr
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Conversation Now Translated into Scots
The Scottish Government’s 'National Conversation' document, published in the autumn of 2007, has now been translated into the Scots language. Ministers Linda Fabiani and Maureen Watt are to be congratulated for taking the decision to include Scots. Both of the ministers, who are currently explo... more
Government resolve to audit Scots language
The Scottish Government has now announced its intention to hold an audit into the state of provision for the Scots language in accordance with its election manifesto pledge. The audit is needed to identify (a) what baseline information is available on current levels of provision for Scots, and (b... more
MSP insists on help for Scottish Dictionaries
On 9 April Dr Bill Wilson, MSP for the West of Scotland, lodged a Scottish Parliamentary motion calling for a stamp to be issued to commemorate the 200 anniversary of the first Scots language dictionary. He also called for funding in order to create a complete modern Scots dictionary. Wilson cont... more
Government publishes languages strategy
The Scottish Executive is asking for interested individuals and organisations to respond to its recently published Strategy for Scotland's
Languages. According to the Executive the strategy highlights the key areas of language policy that are currently being promoted by the government. Our a... more