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Scots [note 1] is a language variety descended from Early Middle English in the West Germanic language family.Most commonly spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, the Northern Isles of Scotland, and northern Ulster in Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots), it is sometimes called: Lowland Scots, to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language that was historically ...
Scottish (Standard) English is the result of language contact between Scots and the Standard English of England after the 17th century. The resulting shift towards Standard English by Scots-speakers resulted in many phonological compromises and lexical transfers, often mistaken for mergers by linguists unfamiliar with the history of Scottish ...
For example, th-fronting is commonly found, and typical Scottish features such as the post-vocalic /r/ are reduced, [26] although this last feature is more likely to be a development of Central Belt Scots origin, unrelated to Anglo-English nonrhoticity. [27]
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Middle Scots was the Anglic language of Lowland Scotland in the period from 1450 to 1700. By the end of the 15th century, its phonology , orthography , accidence , syntax and vocabulary had diverged markedly from Early Scots , which was virtually indistinguishable from early Northumbrian Middle English .
Scottish language may refer to: Scots language ( Scots Leid ), a Germanic language spoken in Lowland Scotland and Ulster, native to southeast Scotland Scottish Gaelic ( Gàidhlig ), a Celtic language native to the Scottish Highlands
In Middle Scots orthography, the use of yogh became confused with a cursive z and the early Scots printers often used z when yogh was not available in their fonts. The yogh glyph can be found in surnames that start with a Y in Scotland and Ireland; for example the surname Yeoman, which would have been spelled Ȝeman .
Areas where the Scots language was spoken in the twentieth century. [15] [16] Norn is an extinct North Germanic language that developed from Old Norse and was spoken in Shetland, Orkney and possibly Caithness. Together with Faroese, Icelandic and Norwegian it belongs to the West Scandinavian group. Very little written evidence of the language ...