Scotland: funding boost for Gaelic culture and film

First Minister Alex Salmond has announced £130,000 to support sound archiving and film-making projects based on Skye. Speaking during a visit with Education Secretary Michael Russell to Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Scotland’s first college to teach solely in Gaelic, Mr Salmond confirmed the cash will support work to develop a National Sound Archive and to help foster a new generation of young Gaelic filmmakers.

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The language of Avatar revealed

It all started with what Professor Paul Frommer now describes as a "fateful e-mail."

The linguistics expert from the University of Southern California is the brains behind the language used by James Cameron's 10-foot-tall alien tribe in the much-anticipated science fiction epic, Avatar.

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