There are lots of names for Scots dialects. You'll probably hear them used more often than the word Scots. These names are usually connected to a place and you may have your own local name for the way you speak. These local ways of speaking are called dialects. Taken altogether these dialects are called Scots. To find out about other names for Scots - such as Doric, Broad Scotch and Lallans - please take a look at the names section on the left hand menu.
You can also learn more about the dialects in the dialects section. Sometimes people call the way they speak slang or Scottish slang. This is because, in past times, schools discouraged children from speaking the language by branding it slang. Often people say slang, but actually mean Scots, though they dont know the name.
If you're not sure if you speak Scots listen to the audio clips to hear people speaking the language. Most Scottish people speak with a Scottish accent. People from Scotland and people from England, for instance, can both speak English, but each speaks with a different accent, which tells the listener where we come from.
Speaking Scots is not the same as speaking English with a Scottish accent. This is because speaking in Scots means using many words, sayings, turns of phrase, meanings and grammar, found only in Scots. With just over 55 percent of the vote, the Scottish people decided they wanted to stay. In the midst of this, Scots became a major talking point in regard to the identity of Scotland.
For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the Scots language was considered inferior to English. Its proximity to English and its lack of universality has led to the near extinction of this language a number of times.
And yet, the language lives on. And thanks to the international connections allowed by the internet , people from all over the world are able to talk to each other about Scots and help in its revival. The internet can also cause problems, though. The most recent controversy around Scots erupted in an unlikely place: Wikipedia. For a while, Scots Wikipedia was home to thousands of articles, and was cited by many publications including this one as an example of the revival of the language.
But in September , many people discovered that the Scots language on the website was very inaccurate. The result was articles written in something that looked like Scots, but had a number of errors.
He claims his intentions were good — he admired the language and thought he was translating accurately — but many defenders of the language believe he has done huge harm to the language.
One example of this is that some companies teach artificial intelligence systems how to understand a language using Wikipedia as data. If the Scots on the website is wrong, the language the artificial intelligence learns is wrong. And so once again, robots and the people of Scotland are at odds. This article was originally published on February 7, It has been updated to address errors, as well as to introduce new information.
An earlier version of this article cited Wikipedia as an authentic source for the Scots language, but it has since been reported that much of the language there is inaccurate, which this article now reflects. Try Babbel. However, they did not speak Standard English but developed their unique dialect known as Scottish English. This dialect has the high influence of Gaelic. This Germanic Language, spoken mostly in Lowland Scotland is often classified as one of the ancient varieties of the English language.
The language which evolved from Middle English was influenced during its development by the Romance languages that is Latin Languages; from legal and ecclesiastical Latin, Norman, and French. Other influences include Dutch and Middle Low German. Scottish Gaelic has also loaned man words to Scots, mostly words denoting geographical and cultural features. Scottish Gaelic is a Celtic language of the Goidelic branch.
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