Scots Gaelic, really only still spoken as a native language in a few of the Western Islands.

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Manx Gaelic is one of just six Celtic languages, the others are Irish, Scots Gaelic, Welsh, Breton and Cornish.

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Academics are divided about the status of language which is based on English with influences from Irish, Scots Gaelic and Lowland Scots.

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Only about 60, 000 Scots speak Gaelic and Alex Salmond, the Scottish National Party (SNP) leader, is rarely seen in a kilt.

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