[3] It is spoken by about 10% of Scottish Gaelic speakers, making it the most spoken Dialect outside of the Highlands.
[4] Glasgow Gaelic emerged due to Scottish Gaelic-medium education as well as a migration from the Outer Hebrides to Glasgow.
[5] Most speakers learn Glasgow Gaelic through attending the Glasgow Gaelic School and the dialect has already contributed new works of Scottish Gaelic literature.
Even though some resent the promotion of a Scottish Gaelic language revival in the Lowlands,[6][7] in 2019 urban poet Niall O'Gallagher was appointed Bàrd Baile Ghlaschu, or as the City of Glasgow's first ever Gaelic language Poet Laureate.
[8] In 2020, Dr Duncan Sneddon, Gaelic Development Officer for the Church of Scotland, wrote of the need for inclusion of possible worshippers who, "may have gone through Gaelic Medium Education, and have a good grasp of the language, but without a family or church background with Gaelic, feel that 'Church Gaelic' is outside their comfort zone.