Andrew Carnie, a UA linguistics professor, is heading a research project to analyze and document Scottish Gaelic, a language that is slowly being lost because natives more readily are learning and speaking English. This is a wonderful step in the right direction of saving the world's languages - when a language is lost, it's not just the language that dies, but a whole culture, an entire way of life dies with it. And while Scottish Gaelic has a lot of strange properties (quite strange to us English-speakers at any rate!), it's a wonderful language and we should commend the efforts being done to preserve this unique language.
Here's the link for the full article if you'd like to check it out further - http://uanews.org/node/32670
This is the sort of thing we need to be doing for our Australian Aboriginal languages which are fast dying out!
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