I wish I could say yes, having a cottage in the Western Isles, but it really does seem to be a dying language. When I first knew the Islands in the 1960s most of the middle-aged and all of the elderly spoke Gaelic as their everyday language. But the impact of radio, TV and the internet have turned this totally around for the young. Now only the elderly can be heard speaking it at all - the young, as elsewhere in UK, seem only to communicate by text!
Tony.
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