Gaelic in Scotland is in a "perilous state" and more needs to be done to "urgently support" language speakers, a Holyrood committee has warned.
The Scottish government has introduced the Scottish Languages Bill which aims to support both the Gaelic and Scots languages.
But members of the Scottish Parliament's education committee have warned that the new legislation's aims may not be achieved unless government support goes further.
In a new report scrutinising the bill, MSPs said that ministers needed to do more for the legislation to "make any meaningful difference rather than simply being symbolic".
The report comes as figures from the 2022 census in Scotland showed just 0.1% of people said Gaelic was their main language.
The survey found that 2.5% of people aged three and over had some skills in Gaelic in 2022, an increase of about 50% on the figures for 2011 and 2001.
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