Scots variety spoken in and around Glasgow, Scotland
Glasgow patter
Glaswegian
Native to
United Kingdom
Region
Scotland
Native speakers
(undated figure of Unknown, likely up to 1,000,000 (see Greater Glasgow)[citation needed])
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
North Sea Germanic
Anglo-Frisian
Anglic
Glasgow dialect
Early forms
Old English
Middle English
Writing system
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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IETF
sco-u-sd-gbglg, en-scotland-u-sd-gbglg
The Glasgow dialect, also called Glaswegian, varies from Scottish English at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum to the local dialect of West Central Scots at the other.[1][2] Therefore, the speech of many Glaswegians can draw on a "continuum between fully localised and fully standardised".[3] Additionally, the Glasgow dialect has Highland English and Hiberno-English influences[4] owing to the speech of Highlanders and Irish people who migrated in large numbers to the Glasgow area in the 19th and early 20th centuries.[5] While being named for Glasgow, the accent is typical for natives across the full Greater Glasgow area and associated counties such as Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire and parts of Ayrshire, which formerly came under the single authority of Strathclyde. It is most common in working class people, which can lead to stigma from members of other classes or those outside Glasgow.
As with other dialects, it is subject to dialect levelling where particularly Scots vocabulary is replaced by Standard English words and, in particular, words largely from colloquial English.[6] However, Glaswegians continue to create new euphemisms and nicknames for well-known local figures and buildings.
^Macafee C.I. (1983) ‘Glasgow’ in Varieties of English around the World. Amsterdam: Benjamins. p.7
^Stuart-Smith J. Scottish English: Phonology in Varieties of English: The British Isles, Kortman & Upton (Eds), Mouton de Gruyter, New York 2008. p.47
^Macafee C.I. (1983) ‘Glasgow’ in Varieties of English around the World. Amsterdam: Benjamins. p.31
^Menzies, Janet (1991), "An Investigation of Attitudes to Scots", Scottish Language, 10: 30–46
^Fraser, W. Hamish; Thomas Martin Devine; Gordon Jackson; Irene Maver (1997). Glasgow: Volume II: 1830–1912. Manchester University Press. pp. 149–150. ISBN 978-0-7190-3692-7.
^Robert McColl Millar (2018) Modern Scots: An Analytical Survey, Edinburgh University Press, p. 135
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