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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. Etymology of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    The Scots Gaelic name for Scotland, Alba, derives from the same Celtic root as the name Albion, which properly designates the entire island of Great Britain but, by implication as used by foreigners, sometimes the country of England, Scotland's southern neighbour which covers the largest portion of the island of Britain.

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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]

  6. Languages of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Culture of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    See Scots language and Scottish Gaelic language. An organisation called Iomairt Cholm Cille (Columba Project) has been set up to support Gaelic-speaking communities in both Scotland and Ireland and to promote links between them. [60] Forms of Christianity have dominated religious life in what is now the Scotland for more than 1,400 years.

  8. Ulster Scots people - Wikipedia

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    Ulster Scots is the local dialect of the Lowland Scots language which has, since the 1980s, also been called "Ullans", a portmanteau neologism popularised by the physician, amateur historian and politician Ian Adamson, [33] merging Ulster and Lallans – the Scots for 'Lowlands' [34] – but also said to be a backronym for 'Ulster-Scots ...

  9. 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 ...