GAELIC `EXTINCT IN 40 YEARS' (fwd)

[Phil CashCash]

GAELIC `EXTINCT IN 40 YEARS'
Sep 29 2003

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/content_objectid=13459583_method=full_siteid=89488_headline=-GAELIC--EXTINCT-IN-40-YEARS--name_page.html

GAELIC is in terminal decline and could be extinct as an everyday
language within 40 years, it was claimed yesterday.

Just one per cent of the country admits to having a working knowledge of
it, with 1500 speakers dying each year.

Last year, the number of Gaelic speakers fell to 58,552 the lowest
number ever.

American academic Dr Daniel Abrams studied the language and found that
if Gaelic declines at its current rate, it will vanish as a working
tongue by 2040.