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  2. Scottish national identity - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Gaels - Wikipedia

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    Gaelic language and culture originated in Ireland, extending to Dál Riata in western Scotland. In antiquity, the Gaels traded with the Roman Empire and also raided Roman Britain . In the Middle Ages, Gaelic culture became dominant throughout the rest of Scotland and the Isle of Man .

  4. Scottish people - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Languages of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    The languages of Scotland belong predominantly to the Germanic and Celtic language families. The main language now spoken in Scotland is English, while Scots and Scottish Gaelic are minority languages. The dialect of English spoken in Scotland is referred to as Scottish English.

  6. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    Also in 2016, Quizlet launched "Quizlet Live", a real-time online matching game where teams compete to answer all 12 questions correctly without an incorrect answer along the way. [15] In 2017, Quizlet created a premium offering called "Quizlet Go" (later renamed "Quizlet Plus"), with additional features available for paid subscribers.

  7. Discrimination based on nationality - Wikipedia

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    Article 1(1) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) includes national origin in its definition of racial discrimination: "distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent, or national or ethnic origin which has the purpose or effect of nullifying or ...

  8. Scots language - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Anglo-Saxonism in the 19th century - Wikipedia

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    Anglo-Saxonism is a cultural belief system developed by British and American intellectuals, politicians, and academics in the 19th century. Racialized Anglo-Saxonism contained both competing and intersecting doctrines, such as Victorian era Old Northernism and the Teutonic germ theory which it relied upon in appropriating Germanic (particularly Norse) cultural and racial origins for the Anglo ...