"History of Scots" redirects here. For the history of Scots Gaelic, see history of Scottish Gaelic. For the history of the Scots people, see Scottish people. For the history of the Scots culture, see culture of Scotland.
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The growth and distribution of Scots in Scotland and Ulster:
Northumbrian Old English by the beginning of the 9th century in the northern portion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria, now modern southeastern Scotland
Early Scots by the beginning of the 15th century
Present-day extent of Modern Scots
The history of the Scots language refers to how Anglic varieties spoken in parts of Scotland developed into modern Scots.
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century; or Broad Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Standard English. Modern Scots is a sister languageof Modern English, as the two diverged independently...
Early Scots was the emerging literary languageofthe Early Middle English-speaking parts of Scotland in the period before 1450. The northern forms of Middle...
Scots comprises the varieties ofScots traditionally spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster, from 1700. Throughout its history, Modern Scots has...
transcription delimiters. This is a presentation ofthe phonological historyoftheScotslanguage. Scots has its origins in Old English (OE) via early Northern...
Ulster Scots or Ulster-Scots (Ulstèr-Scotch, Irish: Albainis Uladh), also known as Ulster Scotch and Ullans, is the dialect ofScots spoken in parts of Ulster...
Middle Scots was the Anglic languageof Lowland Scotland in the period from 1450 to 1700. By the end ofthe 15th century, its phonology, orthography, accidence...
known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch ofthe Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland...
Languages in the United Kingdom Middle English declension HistoryoftheScotslanguage Changes to Old English vocabulary Lists: List of dialects of the...
indigenous languages are Scots and Ulster Scots and the Celtic languages, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and, as a revived language with few speakers, Cornish...
Central Scots is a group of dialects ofScots. Central Scots is spoken from Fife and Perthshire to the Lothians and Wigtownshire, often split into North...
Scots and Scottish Gaelic are minority languages. The dialect of English spoken in Scotland is referred to as Scottish English. The Celtic languages of...
covering all ofthe Northern Isles, passed into the hands of Henry Sinclair, of Clan Sinclair. Scots had superseded Norse as thelanguageof prestige on...
or Scots-Irish, are an ethnic group in Ireland who share a common history, culture, and ancestry. Some speak an Ulster Scots dialect oftheScots language...
Modern Shetlandic Scots (MSS) by some linguists) is a dialect of Insular Scots spoken in Shetland, an archipelago to the north of mainland Scotland....
Germanic languages, it is very different from Modern English and Modern Scots, and largely incomprehensible for Modern English or Modern Scots speakers...
verification] Culturally, the Highlands and the Lowlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scotslanguage replaced Scottish...
Clarkson, p. 276 Colm Ó Baoill, "TheScots–Gaelic interface", in Charles Jones, ed., The Edinburgh HistoryoftheScotsLanguage. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University...
group native to the Orkney Islands, who speak an Orcadian dialect oftheScotslanguage, a West Germanic language, and share a common history, culture and...
p67 MacManus, p 89 Nicholls Jones, Charles (1997). The Edinburgh historyoftheScotslanguage. Edinburgh University Press. p. 551. ISBN 978-0-7486-0754-9...
needed] broad Scots at the other. Scottish English may be influenced to varying degrees by Scots. Many Scots speakers separate Scots and Scottish English...
traditionally used to refer to the Scotslanguage as a whole. However, more recent interpretations assume it refers to the dialects of south and central Scotland...
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