[ruairidhc]

Scottish Gaelic has been proclaimed dying for as long as I remember. Despite my name being Gaelic (I am Scottish), the amount of "public" (tax) money that has been poured into the language by our devolved government (>£28 million/year) is appauling. The phrase "that which is falling should also be pushed" comes to mind.

Edit: typo

[jfim]

28 million GBP a year seems pretty small, budget-wise. How much is that per capita?

[ashtonkem]

The Scottish budget is £34B. So Scotland is spending 0.08% of their budget on Gaelic education, which seems pretty inconsequential.

[jrmg]

£5.27 (~7.86 USD)per Scottish resident, or £488 (607.78 USD) per resident speaker of Gaelic, if you go by Wikipedia’s population statistics.

[Edit: or, if you go by the article’s 11000 active speakers number, £2545, 3170 USD]

[daleharvey]

Worth noting that the budget for "Gaelic" is part of education, ie 24m or so is spent on standard schooling which happens to be done in Gaelic

[prerok]

So, do you feel that the money has been misappropriated? I mean, should it have been spent differently (for the same cause)?

I am asking because I understand the issue that you feel regarding spending the money but do you think that it should not have been spent in this cause at all?

[alexitorg]

How much do they spend on Scots? It seems odd to teach the south eastern half of the population Gaelic, if their ancestral language is Scots.