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This is the illusionist, in which I, Helen Salzman, marvel at our language is getting 20 million

views for contouring tutorials on YouTube. Today's episode is another installment about

minority languages, the threats they face and what they do to survive. But now, on with the show.

And remember seeing to a friend of mine, I used to have another language. I used to be able

to speak another language and she was like, speak it then. And I remember not having

anything. I couldn't say anything. This is Ishbel McFarlane, a theatre maker and

campaigner for the Scots language. Although, for many years of her life, she did not want

anything to do with the Scots language at all. So my mum and dad deliberately brought

me up, speaking Scots when I was we, partly because they both grown up in, I don't think

complicated, but Scots language environments and they were themselves Scots language

campaigners. So they really wanted me to have access to it. So that would be my sort of

home language. But then, because of a whole load of reasons, essentially that it's not

seen as a language by many people, I wasn't allowed to use it at primary school or at nursery

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