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The UK is being urged by Europe’s leading human rights organisation to push ahead with strategies to promote the use of Irish and Ulster Scots languages in Northern Ireland despite continued tensions over the issue.
The Council of Europe experts also want to see the strengthening of teaching of all minority languages in the UK including Cornish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Manx Gaelic in the Isle of Man.
They are among the main recommendations of the latest report on the UK and the Isle of Man published by the committee of experts of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
Their recommendation comes as the hit movie Kneecap, about the eponymous Belfast republican Irish language rap trio, made by the former Daily Star journalist Rich Peppiatt, continues to enthral audiences and drive home its subtext over the loss of indigenous languages.