Lost Language

Bobby Hogg, the last fluent speaker of the Cromarty dialect, spoken by the fisher folk of the Black Isle in Inverness has died recently. His passing has raised concerns over the future of this dying tongue. The Highland Council have made attempts to preserve the language, including a phrase booklet and recordings of conversations between Bobby and his brother Gordon.

“Language”, Zulu Winter

Sometimes an entire album can be summarised by its opening moments. The opening notes of “Language” bleed together effortlessly as the drums slowly build, the shimmering vocals building the emotive overture as the chorus peaks timidly, willingly. Not only is “Key To My Heart” something Coldplay would be proud to produce for their next album, it manages to capture everything that is great about Zulu Winter’s debut, an album that mixes ethereal electronica, mystical rhetoric and a sound that almost flawlessly could be described as Two Door Cinema Club covered in cobwebs and glitter.

Playwrite Defends Languages in Scotland

Tom Stoppard speaks out in defence of Glasgow’s language course

The Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead author was born in Czechoslovakia © Dinamarco, Luciano

Academy Award-winning playwright Sir Tom Stoppard has spoken out in support of a petition, which attracted more than 3000 signatures, presented to the Scottish Parliament by University of Glasgow lecturer Dr. Jan Culik.

The petition, which calls on the Scottish Government to instruct the Scottish Funding Council – the body responsible for distributing funding to Scottish further and higher education institutes – to provide “targeted funding for lesser-taught languages and cultures at Scottish universities”, was discussed by the Public Petitions Committee on Tuesday, 20th September.