Scots language now listed on Spotify

The world’s biggest music streaming service has added Scots to its list of recognised languages after a lobbying campaign by award-winning Aberdeenshire folk singer Iona Fyfe.

Iona led the campaign which saw Spotify adding Scots to its list of languages. Scots is one of Scotlands three national languages with over 1.5 million speakers (2011 census) and is recognised as a language by the European Charter for Minority Languages. Iona noticed that despite Spotify listing every other UK Minority Language including Manx, Irish Gaelic, Cornish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic, Scots was omitted. Iona’s music had been incorrectly categorised as English for several years.

In December, Iona published an open-letter to Spotify asking them to add Scots to the list of languages, which received widespread public support.

Read the open letter here.