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Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh Live
National
Stuart Sommerville

West Lothian Gaelic language plan outlined as number of speakers increases

West Lothian is taking a “pragmatic and incremental” approach to developing the use of Gaelic, as a report revealed the number of local people who speak the language is rising.

But don’t look for bilingual road signs in Lodainn an Iar (West Lothian) - as there won’t be any - yet.

A report was presented to the Corporate Policy Development and Scrutiny Panel to detail a draft submission of the first monitoring report for West Lothian Council’s Gaelic Language Plan, prior to its submission to the Bord na Gaidhlig.

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