Updated with new languages added. guthan.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/m...

For the sake of completeness - 5th in the series - up to date! guthan.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/i...

Updated with new language added. guthan.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/g...

Updated with new languages added. guthan.wordpress.com/2024/06/10/s...

Updated with new languages added. guthan.wordpress.com/2024/05/06/g...

Updated with new languages added. guthan.wordpress.com/2024/04/08/j...

15 years ago today - "previewing" Series 2... guthan.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/m...

The Collaborative Interactive and Applied Linguistic Links project (CIALL) recorded its most productive year yet in the 2024-25 academic session.. the continuing partnership with Island Voices saw new links created with Catalan, Caribbean Creole, and Farsi interests.. www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...

Cumaibh 14mh–16mh Iuchar 2026 airson Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig aig Oilthigh Ghlaschu. Gairm phàipearan & fiosrachadh clàraidh uile ri thighinn. Hold 14th–16th July 2026 for the Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig conference at the University of Glasgow. Call for Papers & Registration information all to follow.

Noèlia writes “The project ‘Island Voices’ is more than an educational tool or a literary collection of poetic voices. It is a necessary dialogue between cultures." This means we now have five videos in total in our Catalan Selection among all our Other Tongues! guthan.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/c...

Parnaz writes: "... I believe that the ‘Island Voices’ project is more than merely an educational resource; it represents an environment in which multilingualism is celebrated as a valuable asset..." guthan.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/f...

"... and it sometimes takes us to places where community language connections with our home territory may not always be immediately obvious...." guthan.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/c...

Language issues in the mix here in the Storiel.cymru Collections, with a nice wee plug appended to Island Voices' outreach work... 🙂 www.storiel.cymru/audrey-west/

"... we’re delighted that visitors can now access the recording in situ through these displayed QR codes, and so get a taste again of a magical occasion. Queen’s Park will be humming again with snippets of Moladh Beinn Dòbhrain…" #Gaelic #Gàidhlig guthan.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/d...

Part of the Taisce Bheo na nGael project in which the UHI Language Sciences Institute, together with Irish partners, record the natural speech of #Irish and #Scottish #Gaelic speakers in their own communities with user-friendly equipment and techniques. #Gaeilge guthan.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/s...

"Online publication also means, of course, that live links can be incorporated in the text, so that readers can quickly and easily sample the recordings referred to.. This is no small consideration for a primarily speech-oriented project like Guthan nan Eilean!" guthan.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/g...

"The Island Voices documentary, in tracing the life stories of ILT workers and how their careers developed and diversified, reinforces the point that multilingualism is an established fact of UK life, and always has been." #NATECLA25 #IslandofFriends guthan.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/i...

Video number 500(!) from Guthan nan Eilean introduces Ifor ap Glyn, National Poet of Wales 2016-2022. Martin MacIntyre narrates in Gaelic. Part of a suite of clips featuring poetry, documentary video, and unscripted conversation. (Full details in the YouTube video description.) youtu.be/F_XocPUtEIY

Ifor ap Glyn, National Poet of Wales 2016-2022, has become the latest contributor to the Island Voices/Guthan nan Eilean Extensions project supported by CIALL. Samples of poetic verse, documentary narrative, and authentic speech. #Cymraeg #Welsh guthan.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/i...

New Gaelic Project Building on previous projects, LEACAN 2 will provide more guidance on grammatical and spelling issues in Gaelic where there is uncertainty. We are seeking views on points of Gaelic grammar (or spelling) where there is a need for (more) guidance or explanation. (1/5)

"... It’s a project which records the natural speech of Irish and Scottish #Gaelic speakers in their own communities with user-friendly equipment and techniques. In an additional challenge for Scottish Gaelic speakers, the descriptions are offered in Irish!..." guthan.wordpress.com/2025/06/09/j...

Straight to the 40+ videos - with options for learners and non-speakers of #Gaelic guthan.wordpress.com/shortcuts/

The University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) is offering a new, fully-funded PhD opportunity titled "Navigating Modernity: Strategies to protect local language, indigenous knowledge, and cultural biodiversity". #Gaelic #Gàidhlig www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...

While recording natural conversational speech of fluent #Gaelic speakers over the past couple of years, we have taken to also “scaffolding” these clips for the benefit of any Gaelic learners or non-speakers who wish to follow them as well... #Gàidhlig guthan.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/g...

Tommy has been the central figure in creating a series of clips looking at local houses and ruins, recording stories associated with them, and talking to people with experience of living in taighean-tughaidh (thatched houses) in particular. #Gàidhlig #Gaelic guthan.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/c...

We’re delighted to add another island language - Haitian Creole - to our growing list of Other Tongues... In addition to Jamaican and English, this film is also already available in Welsh and Portuguese – as well as Gaelic, of course! guthan.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/j...

O chionn 5 bliadhna: “In our final article, Gordon Wells takes us to the Outer Hebrides and into a different perspective on relationships between literacy and oracy..." guthan.wordpress.com/2020/05/18/s...

A reminder that the accumulation of language skills is not a zero sum game... #IslandofFriends guthan.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/m...

15 years ago: Classic Island Voice. guthan.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/n...

Hmm. Food for thought for those of a "language is a living thing" persuasion? "... there is little point bringing back an animal if we simply drive it to extinction again... De-extinction is not an alternative to conservation – we would have to do both." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Five years ago: "You wish to chain my hands and my feet. How will you chain my mind? You may shut my eyes and my mouth. How will you bind my spirit?" guthan.wordpress.com/2020/04/07/l...

Updated with new project: guthan.wordpress.com/extensions/

Updated with 11 new films: guthan.wordpress.com/other-tongues/

“Practitioners offer unique insights and innovative strategies and address real-world challenges. Their contributions ensure that research is grounded in practical realities, informs policies, and guides professional development.” Island Voices article included. guthan.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/w...

"Bha seo aig àm nuair a bha ceistean mu chumail suas cànain mhàthaireil a’ tòiseachadh a’ tarraing barrachd aire.. Tha sreath de dh’ agallamhan clàraichte agus chòmhraidhean ann an diofar chànanan a’ dol cuide ris an fhilm seo.." #Gàidhlig #Gaelic Tha Magaidh Smith ag aithris. youtu.be/6Sy7HV3-RxQ

Bliadhna air ais: guthan.wordpress.com/2024/03/27/t...

"... delighted that Magaidh Smith consented to take part in true vernacular #Gaelic style, and we welcome the fresh Welsh voice of long-settled Grimsay resident, Rhodri Evans... (E)very similar contribution underlines the value of ongoing linguistic diversity." guthan.wordpress.com/2025/03/25/m...

Ifor ap Glyn continues his support. 👍🙂 "These additions will bump the total number of films in our Other Tongues #Welsh Selection up to five – with more to come!" #Gàidhlig #Jamiekan #Shaetlan #Cymraeg guthan.wordpress.com/2025/03/14/w...

You can pick out individual sessions simply by clicking on the relevant blue title or video thumbnail... guthan.wordpress.com/aire-air-sun...

This page collects together the various blogposts recording the Island Voices #Gaelic related contributions to the Comann Eachdraidh Uibhist a Tuath well-being project “Aire air Sunnd”, starting from May 2022. guthan.wordpress.com/aire-air-sun...

"... partners in universities in India and Jamaica discussed themes of common interest with UK-based community language speakers, after watching brief extracts from the final session of Saoghal Thormoid, in which Norman Maclean talks specifically about #Gaelic." guthan.wordpress.com/talking-poin...

Island Voices documentaries now in 35 different languages - and counting... guthan.wordpress.com/other-tongues/

Mar a thòisich sinn a-mach (còig bliadhna air ais): "Stòras Beò nan Gàidheal builds on previous Island Voices experience of bringing this kind of recording practice into the community, in a way that is maximally user-friendly, and feels as natural as possible." guthan.wordpress.com/storas-beo/

March 2025 Update! The second half of the conversation between Jimí and Pádruig has now been added to the collection. #Gaeilge guthan.wordpress.com/2024/08/19/t...

"We really appreciate and applaud the Back Historical Society’s work in creating and sharing online these community recordings, which bring Gaelic as it is spoken at community level, and as it reflects local knowledge, within reach of all with an interest..." guthan.wordpress.com/sgire-a-bhac/

Documentary slice of Jamaican life in Wales, narrated in #Gaelic about Audrey West, poet, artist, and community worker. This film contributes to a small Jamaican collection, in which our "capture and curation" model is used for more languages in addition to English and Gaelic. youtu.be/v_mA81Zf_xI

"Paul and James share the same experience of having been brought to Uist as young boys to be taken into local families. They had a lot to talk about!" #Gaelic conversation with optional aids for learners and non-speakers in digestible chunks. guthan.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/p...

A documentary slice of Shetland poet Christie Williamson's life in Glasgow, narrated in #Gaelic. This film contributes to a small collection, in which the Island Voices/Guthan nan Eilean "capture and curation" model is used for more languages in addition to English and Gaelic youtu.be/XvHGBteZyA8

"We’ve also cut the conversation up into smaller chunks and added subtitles and Clilstore transcriptions to help learners or non-speakers of Gaelic get a sense of how James feels about his connection to North Uist." guthan.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/j...

Lewis-man Donald S Murray is a Shetland resident. As an established writer, mostly in English, how does he keep his Gaelic going while living away from the Ness community where he acquired it? guthan.wordpress.com/2024/05/06/g...