The Scottish accent can be notoriously hard for other English speakers to understand, but what if that’s because it’s not actually English at all? Though closely related to English, Scots is ...

UNESCO predicts the global community will lose as many as 3,000 indigenous languages by the end of the century. When a dominant language such as English, French or Spanish usurps the indigenous ...

Scottish folk legend Barbara Dickson OBE, who is set to play four dates in Northern Ireland this April, has had a ...

A round-up of events going on across Edinburgh over the course of the next week, including yoga, film festivals and tarot readings.

Ewan Kennedy explores the connections between our national bard and our other national language.