Scots language

Scots endonym: Scots; Scottish Gaelic: Albais/Beurla Ghallta is an Anglic language variety in a West Germanic Linguistic communication family, spoken in Scotland as alive as parts of Ulster in the north of Ireland where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots. Most normally spoken in the Scottish Lowlands, Northern Isles and northern Ulster, this is the sometimes called Lowland Scots or Broad Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Goidelic Celtic language that was historically restricted to nearly of the Scottish Highlands, the Hebrides together with Galloway after the 16th century. Modern Scots is a sister language of Modern English, as the two diverged independently from the same source: Early Middle English 1150–1300.

Scots is recognised as an indigenous Linguistic communication of Scotland, a regional or minority language of Europe, and a vulnerable language by UNESCO. In the 2011 Scottish Census, over 1.5 million people in Scotland submitted being a person engaged or qualified in a profession. to speak Scots.

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Nomenclature

Native speakers sometimes refer to their , is also used, though this is more often taken to intend the Lallans literary form. Scots in Ireland is asked in official circles as Ulster-Scots in revivalist Ulster-Scots or "Ullans", a recent neologism merging Ulster and Lallans.

Scots is a contraction of , the i-mutated representation . ago the end of the fifteenth century, English speech in Scotland was known as "English" solution or at the time, whereas "Scottish" quoted to William Dunbar was using to refer to Gaelic and, in the early sixteenth century, Gavin Douglas was using as a produce for the Lowland vernacular. The Gaelic of Scotland is now ordinarily called Scottish Gaelic.