Why is Scots a Language?

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27 Dec 2020, 9:38 pm

Scots is an offshoot of Germanic Anglosaxon English, and has nothing to do with the Celtic Gaelic of the original inhabitants of Scotland,the later of which is still spoken in the Highlands, and in the islands of Scotland. Scots is the language of the big cities and of the lowlands of Scotland.

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29 Dec 2020, 1:33 pm

This popped up on my YouTube suggestions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CywMiUW48fk

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29 Dec 2020, 1:35 pm

Here is a Twitter thread on the subject by a linguist at Oxford University.

https://twitter.com/hwc001/status/1341052462707453954

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We should start at first principles. How do we define a language? How do we define a dialect? And, in definitional terms, what’s the difference between the two? There are 2 ways to look at this, linguistic & socio-political.

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30 Dec 2020, 12:00 pm

this guy always does a good primer on languages.

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