2. • Subject and background
• Positioning within the field of
sociolinguistics
• Gaelic findings
3. Declining numbers of speakers
WELSH 1901: 920,824 or 49.9% of the Welsh population
2001: 582,400 or 20.8% (Office for National Statistics, 2004)
GAELIC 1901: 202,700 or 4.5% of the Scottish population
2001: 58,652 or 1.21% (Census, 2004)
BRETON 1905: 1,400,000 or 93% of the Breton population (Broudic, 1995)
2007: 172,000 or 13% (Extra & Gorter, 2008)
4. Figure: Gaelic Medium Primary School Education Pupil Numbers (CNAG, 2010)
Growth of Gaelic medium schools
5. Figure: Parents’ level of qualification and socioeconomic category (N:42)
Education and occupations