Scots Gaelic, really only still spoken as a native language in a few of the Western Islands.

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Buzakhar said Tamazight's "deep-rooted" history as a native language -- which significantly predated Arabic's arrival in North Africa -- meant that regarding it as anything less than an official language was illogical.

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Cornish has died out as a native language but is being revived: and of course Irish Gaelic, or Erse, is still spoken, more widely in the west of the island than the east.

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Not really, just evidence of the familiar problem of British skills shortages a problem so acute that many employers prefer to hire a worker who does not have English as a first language, in preference to a less-skilled native.

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English was forced upon our education system as a primary language, so there's a huge chunk of native Welsh who cannot speak Welsh Things are getting better however.

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True, native speakers generally regard the seven to 13 mostly mutually unintelligible variants as dialects of a single language.

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Thornton Media is recognized as a leader in the tech side of indigenous language revitalization, developing translation devices, talking toys programmed in native languages and other tools over its 17-year lifespan.

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