- What is Scots
Scots is one of three native languages spoken in Scotland today, the other two being English and Scottish Gaelic Scots is the collective name for Scottish dialects known also as Doric, Lallans and Scotch or by more local names such as Buchan, Dundonian, Glesca or Shetland
- Scots language | History, Examples, Facts | Britannica
Scots language, historic language of the people of Lowland Scotland and one closely related to English Scots is directly descended from Northern English, which displaced Scots Gaelic in portions of Scotland in the 11th–14th centuries as a consequence of Anglo-Norman rule there
- Scots language and alphabet - Omniglot
Scots is a West Germanic language is spoken by about 1 5 million people in Scotland, and also Northern Ireland, where it is known as Ulster Scots or Ullans Scots is descended from the language of the Angles who settled in northern Britain, in an area now known as Northumbria and southern Scotland, in the 5th century AD
- Scots, Scotch, and Scottish | Merriam-Webster
Scots is most often used to refer to the dialect of English found in Scotland (although, once again, some feel that it instead is a Germanic language which is related to, but distinct from, English) Scotch is generally used in compounds (such as Scotch pine or Scotch whisky), and set phrases
- Discover the Scots Language: What is Scots, why is it called a dialect . . .
Scots is one of Scotland’s native languages that, despite often being called a dialect, is officially recognised as a language by the Council of Europe and the Scottish and UK governments
- Dictionaries of the Scots Language :: What is Scots?
Scots, along with its closest relative English, is a member of the West Germanic family of languages, a group that also includes Afrikaans, Dutch, Flemish, Frisian, and German It is a distinctive language, divergent from English since at least the fourteenth century
- What is Scots? - scots-online. org
The currently prevalent 'definition' of Scots is that "Scots might be regarded as a continuum, with Broad Scots at one end, and Standard Scottish English at the other "
- Scots - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scots is a West Germanic language It is sometimes called Lowland Scots or Lallans It is not Scottish English but the two are similar Scottish English is a dialect of English and Scots is a separate language [4] Ulster Scots is a form of Scots found in the north of Ireland
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