The last speaker of the Cromarty dialect of Lowland Scots, spoken in Cromarty, Scotland, has died.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/05/world/eur ... index.html

It appears that both Scots and Scottish Gaelic are in a continuous decline, although there has been some recognition of SG by the EU. I wonder what Scottish public schools are doing to improve the situation.

Pretty much naught! But ye can see Scottish Gaelic on road-signs in Scotland.

Near the end of the article it implies that English and Welsh are similar languages! How absurd is that!?

Mae bron dim byd! Ond gall chwi weld Gaeleg yr Alban ar y ffordd-arwyddion yn yr Alban.

Tua diwedd yr erthygl ei fod yn awgrymu bod y Gymraeg a'r Saesneg yn ieithoedd tebyg! Pa mor hurt yw hynny!?

Sorry to be jumping in here just to correct your Welsh.
gall is third person, and you're trying to use it with chi (not chwi please, we don't say that anymore). I think you want gallwch, or maybe even just say rych chi'n gallu. But feel free to ignore my advice, as I am still only a dysgwr and we're probably at about the same level.
Dydy e ddim. Wrth gwrs maen nhw'n ieithoedd tebyg. Maen nhw'n 'Indo-European' (beth yw hyn yn y Gymraeg? dw i ddim yn gwybod).

It isn't. Of course they are similar languages. They're [both] Indo-European.

Sorry I am for the mistakes in "mah" Welsh, but truth be known that were Google Translate. I amn good as that yet! And I congratulate thissen on being able to correct mahsel, especially as tha'rt still naught but a dysgwr!

Aye, they may be both Indo-European, but they're alike as chalk an' cheese! Of course they're both Celtic an' all, but still!

Agreed. I wouldn't exactly consider Manx particularly similar to Tochardian A.

Aha, that would explain the mistakes. After using GT you are! Paid â'i ddefnyddio eto, ocê? At least not for Welsh <> English, because it does a poor to terrible job. "Easier to say than mountain passes" and that.
Thanking you very much.
Since when are they both Celtic? English is generally considered Germanic; some people (such as my father) think it's Romance due to the incredible number of French loans, but they're wrong.
What have I missed?

Nay, Tikolm, ah meant tha' Scottish Gaelic and Welsh was booth Celtic, not English.

An' dan_ad_nauseam, did tha mean Tochardian A, or Tocharian? As ah cannae find Tochardian A on Omniglot or Wikipædia.

The Tocharian corpus shows two dialects (or possibly fully separate languages).

But in the post I was replying to originally, you said that it was absurd that English and Welsh were similar. Then you said this:
and I assumed 'they' referred to Welsh and English because you hadn't given it another antecedent.
In any case, if you were referring to Gaelic and Welsh, there's no denying they're quite similar. Never mind about the w's and y's or the Q/P split; you have to look past all that.