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1. Scottish Gaelic Field Materials 
   • Collection identifier: 2019-25
   • Primary contributors: Sandra Corbett (consultant); Henry MacInnes (consultant); Morag Maclean (consultant); Madeline Bossi (researcher, donor)
   • Additional contributors: Anne Frater (consultant); Ceitidh Ghreumach (consultant); Hettie Knight (consultant); Christine MacInnes (consultant); Margaret MacLean (consultant); Donald John MacRitchie (consultant); Ruaraidh Maclean (consultant); Murdo Maclennan (consultant); Freya Macleod (consultant); Lisa Reid (consultant); Madeline Bossi (photographer)
   • Language: Scottish Gaelic (gla)
   • Historical information: Scottish Gaelic (ISO: gla) is an endangered language spoken by approximately 57,400 people in Scotland, particularly in the Western Isles. Ethnologue classifies the language as 'provincial,' since there is some level of governmental and educational recognition and use of the language. Yet UNESCO categorizes Gaelic as 'definitely endangered' because children very rarely learn the language as a mother tongue in the home. Since the mid-18th century, there has been a shift from Gaelic to English, even within the traditionally Gaelic-speaking part of the country, due to military suppression, economic disadvantage, heavy—often forced—emigration, and other cultural pressures. The majority of Gaelic speakers are now consolidated in the Western Isles, with the density of Gaelic use decreasing steadily to the south and east of the country. The shift towards English constitutes not only a northwestern retreat of the Gaeltacht, but also a de-Gaelicization of the historic stronghold of the language, with fewer and fewer speakers using Gaelic as an everyday language. Today there are no monolingual Gaelic speakers and English is the majority language throughout Scotland. Intergenerational transmission of the language is weak, even in the Western Isles. Although efforts to revitalize Gaelic have gained momentum since the mid-1970s, the language has continued to decline in demographic terms. Despite the creation of governmental and educational bodies devoted to the protection and expansion of the language, Gaelic remains an uncommon choice for home and social use.
     The materials in this collection were developed by Madeline Bossi as part of fieldwork during her time as a graduate student at UC Berkeley. The orthography used in field notes and transcriptions largely reflects modern Scottish Gaelic orthography, with some comments in pseudo-IPA transcription. All audio was recorded on a Zoom H4n Pro digital recorder. Funding for this research has come from an Oswalt Endangered Language Grant administered by the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages in the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley, and from an Underhill Fellowship from the Center for British Studies at UC Berkeley.
   • Scope and content: Audio recordings of elicitation sessions and of oral texts; transcriptions; field notes; scans of written texts in Scottish Gaelic
   • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
   • Suggested citation: Sandra Corbett, Henry MacInnes, Morag Maclean, and Madeline Bossi. Scottish Gaelic Field Materials, 2019-25, California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2NK3C74.