More than 12,000 hours of archive recordings in Gaelic and Scots are to be made available online. The new digital archive, ‘Tobar an Dualchais’ or ‘Kist o Riches’, is to contain stories, conversations and songs recorded over the past 80 years.

The £3m project will bring together material held by the School of Scottish Studies in Edinburgh, the BBC, and the National Trust for Scotland.

The Gaelic college, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, will help co-ordinate the initiative.

The project’s director, Mairead Macdonald, said: ‘This is a chance for people to hear natural every day Gaelic and Scots. A lot of these dialects are dying out so it’s a chance for us to hear how people really did speak.’

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