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New app puts Welsh-language live music in fans' pockets A popular online platform for Welsh-language live music is expanding, with the launch of a new mobile app. First launched as a website in January 2025, Awni? (meaning ‘Shall we go?’), brought together...

A popular online platform for Welsh-language live music is expanding, with the launch of a new mobile app

'Language is a need': Ojibwe, Dakota speakers work to preserve, revive Indigenous languages Indigenous language speakers, educators and advocates gathered last week for the fifth annual Dakota and Ojibwe Language Symposium with a shared goal of growing the number of native language speakers in Minnesota.

'Language is a need': Ojibwe, Dakota speakers work to preserve, revive Indigenous languages

Welsh Language Commissioner’s 5-year report: Our time to act Efa Gruffudd Jones I am publishing this five year report almost exactly halfway through my term as Welsh Language Commissioner. Since beginning my post in January 2023, I have taken the opportunity to...

Symbolic action alone is not enough – decisive action is needed to achieve real change. We need a new, more ambitious and bolder approach if we are to have any real prospect of seeing the Welsh language thrive ✍️ Efa Gruffudd Jones

Historic Irish newsreels digitised and made available for free online Gael Linn’s Amharc Éireann captured a snapshot of Irish life in the 1950s and 1960s

Historic Irish newsreels digitised and made available for free online

Haitian Creole: The Complete Beginner’s Guide An overview of the sounds, sentence structure, tenses, nouns, and basic phrases in Haitian Creole

For most people, a Creole is a broken version of another language. This couldn't be further from the truth. This is an extensive overview of the Haitian Creole language!

#language #Linguistics #Langsky #Languages #Haitiancreole

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Translation of children’s book inspires Polish academic to research Welsh swear words Gosia Buzzanca There are many ways into finding oneself inspired language and culture. For an academic researcher from Poland, Joanna Człapa, the inspiration came as she read a Welsh translation of Ro...

Inspired by Matilda, a Polish academic is uncovering the secrets of Welsh swearing ✍️Gosia Buzzanca

The annual Seachtain na Gaeilge festival is starting today and will continue until March 17th!

Image: Cárta Ballraíochta ó Chartlann Chonradh na Gaeilge, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe G60/4/6/1

Winners announced of new Welsh-language micro-literature competition Three writers have been named winners of a new Welsh-language micro-literature competition launched to mark St David’s Day. The competition celebrates the launch of Tudalen, a new digital platform hos...

Three writers have been named winners of a new Welsh-language micro-literature competition launched to mark St David’s Day

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🌼 Dydd Gŵyl Dewi hapus i chi gan bawb yn Newyddion S4C

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! 🌼

St David's most famous words were 'Gwnewch y pethau bychain' - 'Do the little things'.

Why not do a small thing for yourself and discover more about the history of Wales, including the life and legacy of St David, in the books below? 📚

Ceann de na háiteanna is fearr liom in Éirinn a Mhaitiú!

Bhí ceann deataithe an-bhlasta agam mar bhricfeasta!

Cuan Bhinn Éadair ó Pholl Scadán, lá aoibhinn gréine. Is deas mar a mheabhraíonn an logainm oidhreacht na scadán san áit seo dúinn.

Níl ‘aon cheist’ ach go dteastaíonn cúrsaí céime nua le sprioc earcaíochta don Ghaeilge a bhaint amach – Coimisinéir Teanga Deir an Coimisinéir Teanga go mbeidh sé ag iarraidh a chur ina luí ar Roinn na Gaeltachta gur cúrsaí céime i nGaeilge seachas ‘modúil’ atá ag teastáil má táthar le sprioc earcaíochta an Rialtais a bha...

Níl ‘aon cheist’ ach go dteastaíonn cúrsaí céime nua le sprioc earcaíochta don Ghaeilge a bhaint amach – Coimisinéir Teanga

Áthas orm bualadh le Coimisinéir Gaeilge an Tuaiscirt Pól Deeds agus é ar cuairt ar Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga @ceartateanga.bsky.social ar an Spidéal inniu | Delighted to meet both Irish Language Commissioners in An Spidéal today. Every success to both offices at this critical time.

Níos lú ná 1% d'earcaigh ina gcainteoirí Gaeilge in 2025 Cainteoirí Gaeilge iad níos lú ná 1% de na daoine a earcaíodh chuig an tseirbhís phoiblí anuraidh fríd PoistPhoiblí.

Is scéal mór nuachta é seo ó @news.rte.ie nach bhfuair aird chuí le cúpla lá anuas. Is gá tabhairt faoin dúshlán seo le fonn agus le fuadar ag leibhéal ard straitéiseach sa tseirbhís phoiblí féin agus sna hollscoileanna.

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’S e Là Abairt na Gàidhlig a th’ ann! Gabh pàirt san iomairt le bhith a’ clàradh na h-abairt agad agus ga sgaoileadh air na meadhanan-sòisealta #LàAbairtNaGàidhlig. // It’s Say A Gaelic Phrase Day! Join in the fun, by selecting and recording your phrase, and sharing it on social #SayAGaelicPhraseDay

Máirtín Ó Murchú, scoláire, ceannródaí agus duine uasal Léiriú a shaothar ar chumas Mháirtín Uí Mhurchú mar scoláire bhí tréith fhíorGhaelach uasal ann a d’fhág gur chaith sé go fial le scoláirí óga agus eile

Máirtín Ó Murchú, scoláire, ceannródaí agus duine uasal

Gaelic Week is under way! There are lots of special events in Edinburgh, including
Cruinn Còmhla Community Day, Saturday 28 February, 10am-4pm (ionaddhuneideann.org)
Discussion about the role of Gaelic media, Thurs 26th, 530pm (www.nls.uk/whats-on/gae...)
snagde.com/events/
@sngaidhlig.bsky.social

Cuairt le tabhairt ag Coimisinéir Gaeilge an Tuaiscirt ar Choimisinéir Teanga an Deiscirt Tabharfaidh Pól Deeds cuairt ar Údarás na Gaeltachta, Roinn na Gaeltachta, Oifig an Choimisinéara Teaga, agus Ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus é i nGaillimh an tseachtain seo

Cuairt le tabhairt ag Coimisinéir Gaeilge an Tuaiscirt ar Choimisinéir Teanga an Deiscirt

£620,000 i hybu Gaeleg yr Alban Daw’r addewid o arian ar ddechrau wythnos Gaeleg y Byd

£620,000 i hybu Gaeleg yr Alban

Daw’r addewid o arian ar ddechrau wythnos Gaeleg y Byd

✍️ Alun Rhys Chivers

‘S e Seachdain na Gàidhlig 2026 a th’ ann!
Tha sinn uile air ar bioran gus am faic sinn na tha romhainn an t-seachdain-sa!
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Seachdain na Gàidhlig 2026 is here!
We can’t wait to see what lies ahead for us all this week!

#SeachdainNaGàidhlig2026

Abair là aig toiseach Seachdain na Gàidhlig! Ceud mile taing do gach neach a ghabh pàirt an-diugh. Chì sinn sibh a-màireach!
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What a day to kick off Seachdain na Gàidhlig! We are beyond grateful to everyone who participated today, in all sorts of ways. See you tomorrow!

#SeachdainNaGàidhlig2026

Scottish Government unveils Gaelic language funding package

A new funding package to support the growth of the Gaelic language has been unveiled by the Deputy First Minister

£620,000 i hybu'r iaith Aeleg yn yr Alban Bydd £620,000 yn cael ei roi i hybu twf yr iaith Aeleg yn yr Alban yn ôl Dirprwy Brif Weinidog yr Alban, Kate Forbes

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Bydd £620,000 yn cael ei roi i hybu twf yr iaith Aeleg yn yr Alban, gydag £200,000 ar gyfer y gwasanaeth cyfryngau Gaeleg, MG Alba. newyddion.s4c.cymru/article/ps62...

Airgead riaghaltais ùr dhan chànan aig toiseach Seachdain na Gàidhlig Dh'ainmich Riaghaltas na h-Alba £620,000 de mhaoineachadh a bharrachd do leasachadh na Gàidhlig air a' chiad là de Sheachdain na Gàidhlig.

Maoiniú breise ar son na teanga ó Rialtas na hAlban agus Seachdain na Gàidhlig ag tosú.

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Athrú suntasach ar Bhunreacht Chonradh na Gaeilge agus Éire Aontaithe ina cuspóir ag an eagraíocht arís Spreag rúin a pléadh ag Ard-Fheis Chonradh na Gaeilge plé fada agus, in amanna, teasaí faoi chuspóirí Chonradh na Gaeilge

Athrú suntasach ar Bhunreacht Chonradh na Gaeilge agus Éire Aontaithe ina cuspóir ag an eagraíocht arís

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

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Joan Veny i Lídia Pons: “L’atles lingüístic català és una referència per a totes les llengües romàniques” Entrevista amb profunditat a Joan Veny i Lídia Pons, ara que s'ha acabat la fase cartogràfica de l’‘Atles lingüístic del domini català’

🗣️ “L’atles lingüístic català és una referència per a totes les llengües romàniques”

Entrevista amb profunditat als dialectòlegs Joan Veny i Lídia Pons

Tha Seachdain na Gàidhlig 2026 a’ tòiseachadh ann an dà là! Faic dè tha dol air feadh an t-saoghail agus mar as urrainn dhut fhèin pàirt a ghabhail air ar làrach-lìn! // Seachdain na Gàidhlig 2026 starts in two days! Check out all that’s planned around the world and how you can be a part it!