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Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] · 2026-02-21 · 14:11 UTC

“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”

—Alastair Cole: How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas

https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660

#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO #fishing #fishingindustry #Hebrides #language #minoritylanguage

#minoritylanguage #language #hebrides #fishingindustry #fishing #unesco

Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] · 2026-02-21 · 14:11 UTC

“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”

—Alastair Cole: How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas

https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660

#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO #fishing #fishingindustry #Hebrides #language #minoritylanguage

#minoritylanguage #language #hebrides #fishingindustry #fishing #unesco

Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] · 2026-02-21 · 14:11 UTC

“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”

—Alastair Cole: How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas

https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660

#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO #fishing #fishingindustry #Hebrides #language #minoritylanguage

#minoritylanguage #language #hebrides #fishingindustry #fishing #unesco

Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] · 2026-02-21 · 14:11 UTC

“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”

—Alastair Cole: How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas

https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660

#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO #fishing #fishingindustry #Hebrides #language #minoritylanguage

#scotland #gaidhlig #gaelic #motherlanguageday #unesco #fishing

Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] · 2026-02-21 · 14:11 UTC

“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”

—Alastair Cole: How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas

https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660

#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO #fishing #fishingindustry #Hebrides #language #minoritylanguage

#minoritylanguage #language #hebrides #fishingindustry #fishing #unesco

Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] · 2026-02-20 · 16:25 UTC

“Just as, after reading Heinlein, a door is no longer quite the same thing, so, after reading DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA, a dialect is no longer quite the same thing either”

—Cat Fitzpatrick reviews Harry Josephine Giles’s DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for @StrangeHorizons

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/deep-wheel-orcadia-by-harry-josephine-giles/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #poetry #sciencefiction #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage

#minoritylanguage #scotslanguage #scots #scifi #sciencefiction #poetry

Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] · 2026-02-20 · 16:23 UTC

In 2019, Harry Josephine Gilesl’s science-fiction verse novel DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA was a work-in-progress, & we were delighted to feature an extract. Published in 2021, DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year

7/8

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature-an-excerpt-from-deep-wheel-orcadia-a-future-fantasy/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #sciencefiction #poetry #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage

#minoritylanguage #scotslanguage #scots #scifi #poetry #sciencefiction

Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] · 2026-02-20 · 16:22 UTC

The New Orkney Language Literature

Harry Josephine Giles looks at

“the minoritisation of the language, perpetuated not just through literary snobbery but also through an education system that beat out Orcadian with physical force”

& a literary rebirth

6/8

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature/

#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage

#minoritylanguage #scotslanguage #scots #orcadian #orkney #literature

Assoc for Scottish Literature @[email protected] · 2025-10-15 · 13:55 UTC