#yearofindigenouslanguages

SMAOINTICH GU MATH AN TÒISEACH, DEANADAR AN SIN.

[Consider well in the first place, then act.]

~ “Gaelic Proverbs, and Proverbial Sayings” le T. D. MacDonald

MEASAR AN T-AMADAN GLIC MA CHUMAS E A THEANGA. [The fool may pass for wise if he holds his tongue.] ~ “Gaelic Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings”, T.D. Macdonald

“Abair ach beagan is abair gu math e.” [“Say but little and say it well.”] In 2019, being the United Nations’ International Year of Indigenous Languages, would it not be better to say as much as possible in a language that is struggling to survive? Suis leis a’ Ghàidhlig!