a census in the united kingdom in 2001 showed that a total of 58,652 (1.2% of the scottish population aged over three years old) in scotland could then speak some amount of scottish gaelic. only the western isles have more people who can speak the scottish gaelic than not (61% of the people there speak scottish gaelic). the place in scotland with the largest percentage of speakers is a village called barvas on the isle of lewis, where, 74.7% of the people there speak scottish gaelic.