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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 ...
The Dictionary of the Scots Language gives the following definitions: Jock: (1) A generic term for a man, a male person. (34) Jock Tamson's bairns: the human race, common humanity; also, with less universal force, a group of people united by a common sentiment, interest or purpose. [1] Tamson: a Scottish form of the surname Thomson.
The government of the United Kingdom "recognises that Scots and Ulster Scots meet the Charter's definition of a regional or minority language". [21] Whether this implies recognition of one regional or minority language or two is a question of interpretation.
Lowland Scots is still a popular spoken language with over 1.5 million Scots speakers in Scotland. [114] Scots is used by about 30,000 Ulster Scots [115] and is known in official circles as Ullans. In 1993, Ulster Scots was recognised, along with Scots, as a variety of the Scots language by the European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages. [116]
Scottish Gaelic, also known as the founding language of Scotland [52] [53] [54] is currently the oldest Scottish language still in use today. Between 1494 and 1698, passed by the Scots Parliament to make English the first language, [ 55 ] Gaelic had struggled to retain a foothold over Scotland.
Place names in Scotland that contain the element BAL- from the Scottish Gaelic 'baile' meaning home, farmstead, town or city. This data gives some indication of the extent of medieval Gaelic settlement in Scotland. The Scots Gaels derive from the kingdom of Dál Riata, which included parts of western Scotland and northern Ireland.
Raciolinguistics examines how language is used to construct race and how ideas of race influence language and language use. [1] Although sociolinguists and linguistic anthropologists have previously studied the intersections of language, race, and culture, raciolinguistics is a relatively new focus for scholars trying to theorize race throughout language studies.
Black Scottish people (also referred to as African-Scottish, Afro-Scottish, or Black Scottish) are a racial or ethnic group of Scottish who are ethnically African or Black. Used in association with black Scottish identity, the term commonly refers to Scottish of Black African and African-Caribbean descent. The group represents approximately 1.2 ...