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While it will not become Europe's 24th "official" language, from now on Scottish Gaelic speakers can write directly to EU bodies in their mother tongue and receive a reply in Gaelic. Scottish Ministers will also use the language at EU Council meetings with other EU ministers, with Gàidhlig (Gaelic) being used for the first time at the next Council of Education Ministers meeting in November (26th-27th).

The deal was sealed in a Memorandum of Understanding signed in Brussels by the UK's EU ambassador, Sir Kim Darroch, and by Donald Henderson, Scotland's EU director last week.

The memorandum, similar to that signed for Welsh, establishes the technical arrangements to allow Gaelic to be used within EU institutions.