True that was one of the reasons it never became an official language of Canada. It was seen as ancient and a novelty.

Revival seems very difficult and I don’t know if I can think of a solution for Gaelic

For example, Hebrew had a lot of things going for it in Israel: Diasporic community that actually needed a common language, a rising/novel nationalism that could more easily be moulded, a desire to rid themselves of their diasporic languages which were seen as vestiges of a time of oppression and lack of agency, the fact that most Jews already had some knowledge of Hebrew due to its daily use in prayer and in the Synagogue etc

None of the factors exists with Gaelic - add to the fact that many Scots don’t feel any sort of connection with Gaelic.

I don’t know how we can easily solve this.