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Scots is the Germanic language variety spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots). It is sometimes called Lowland Scots to distinguish it from Scottish Gaelic, the Celtic language spoken in most of the western Highlands and in the Hebrides. Since there are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing languages from dialects, scholars and other interested parties often disagree about the linguistic, historical and social status of Scots. Although a number of paradigms for distinguishing between languages and dialects do exist, these often render contradictory results. Focused broad Scots is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with Scottish Standard English at the other. Consequently, Scots is generally regarded as one of the ancient varieties of English, yet it has its own distinct dialects. Alternatively, Scots is sometimes treated as a distinct Germanic language, in the way Norwegian is closely linked to, yet distinct from, Danish. A 2010 Scottish Government study of public attitudes towards the Scots language found that 64% of respondents (around 1,000 individuals being a representative sample of Scotland's adult population) don't really think of Scots as a language, but it also found that the most frequent speakers are least likely to agree that it is not a language (58%) and those never speaking Scots most likely to do so (72%). In the 2011 Scottish census, a question on Scots language ability was featured.
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Names (more)

[af] Skots
[am] ስኮትኛ
[ar] الأسكتلندية
[an] Idioma anglico escocés
[az] skots dili
[bn] স্কটস
[bs] Škotski jezik
[br] skoteg
[bg] шотландски
[ca] Scots
[cs] Skotština
[kw] Skots
[cy] Sgoteg
[da] Skotsk
[de] Schottisch
[el] Σκωτικά
[en] Lowland Scots language
[eo] Skota lingvo
[et] Šoti keel
[eu] Eskoziera
[fo] Skotskt
[fa] اسکاتلندی
[fi] Skotin kieli
[fr] Scots
[fy] Skotsk
[gd] A' Bheurla Ghallda
[ga] An Albainis
[gl] Lingua escocesa
[gv] Baarle Albinagh
[gu] સ્કોટ્સ
[he] סקוטית
[hi] स्कॉट्स
[hr] Škotski jezik
[hu] Scots nyelv
[hy] Շոտլանդերեն
[ia] Scots
[id] Skotlandia
[is] Skoska
[it] Lingua Scots
[ja] スコットランド語
[kn] ಸ್ಕೋಟ್ಸ್
[ks] سکاٹس
[ko] 스코트어
[lo] ສກອດ
[la] Lingua Scotica
[lv] Skotu valoda
[li] Sjots
[lt] Škotų kalba
[ml] സ്കോട്സ്
[mr] स्कॉट्स भाषा
[mk] Шкотски јазик
[mt] Skoċċiż
[my] စကော့
[nl] Schots
[nn] Skotsk
[nb] skotsk
[no] Skotsk
[oc] Scots
[or] ସ୍କଟସ୍
[pl] Język scots
[pt] Scots
[rm] scot
[ro] Limba scots
[ru] Шотландский язык
[sk] Škótčina
[sl] Scots
[es] Escocés
[sr] Шкотски
[sv] Lågskotska
[ta] சுகாத்து மொழி
[tt] Шотланд теле
[te] స్కాట్స్
[th] สกอตส์
[to] lea fakasikotilani
[tr] Scots
[uk] Шотландська германська мова
[vi] Tiếng Scots
[zh] 低地蘇格蘭語

Language type : Living

Language resources for Scots

Open Languages Archives

Scots Wikipedia
Wiktionary - Category:Scots language [en]
Wiktionnaire - Catégorie:scots [fr]

Omniglot encyclopedia [en]
Lexilogos Dictionaries [en]
Dictionnaires Lexilogos [fr]

Technical notes

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Following BCP 47 the recommended tag for this language is sco.

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ISO 639 Codes

ISO 639-2B : sco
ISO 639-2T : sco
ISO 639-3 : sco

Linked Data URIs

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/sco
http://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:sco
http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/sco

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Sources

Authority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: sco

Freebase ISO 639-3 : sco
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