Scots

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Scots is a West Germanic language historically spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster, closely related to English but with its own distinct vocabulary, grammar, and literary tradition.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf West Germanic language
language
minority language
closelyRelatedTo English language
developedFrom Middle English
surface form: Early Middle English

Northumbrian
surface form: Northumbrian Old English
hasAlternativeName Scots
surface form: Lowland Scots

Scots
surface form: Scots language
hasDialect Scots self-linksurface differs
surface form: Central Scots

Doric
Scots self-linksurface differs
surface form: Insular Scots

Scots self-linksurface differs
surface form: Southern Scots

Scots self-linksurface differs
surface form: Ulster Scots
hasDistinct grammar
literary tradition
orthography
phonology
vocabulary
hasNotableAuthor Allan Ramsay
Hugh MacDiarmid
Robert Burns
Robert Fergusson
William Dunbar
hasNotableWork Poems of Robert Burns
The Brus
The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy
hasRegulatoryStatus recognized minority language in Scotland
recognized minority language in the United Kingdom
historicallySpokenIn Central Lowlands of Scotland
surface form: Lowland Scotland

Ulster
influencedBy French language
Latin
surface form: Latin language

Norse
surface form: Old Norse

Scottish Gaelic
isDistinctFrom Scottish English
Scottish Gaelic
ISO639-1Code sco
ISO639-2Code sco
ISO639-3Code sco
languageFamily Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages
recognizedUnder European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
region Central Lowlands of Scotland
surface form: Lowlands of Scotland
spokenIn Northern Ireland
Scotland
Ulster
status endangered language
subfamily Germanic languages
West Germanic languages
timeDepth medieval period
writingSystem Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ulster hasRegionalLanguage Scots
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
Minister for Communities (Northern Ireland) languageOfWorkOrName Scots
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
Cochrane languageOfOrigin Scots
Scots Confession language Scots
Orr hasLanguageOfOrigin Scots
Scots-Irish American ethnicOrigin Scots
subject surface form: Scots-Irish Americans
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
Scots-Irish American associatedWith Scots
subject surface form: Scots-Irish Americans
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots language
Black Douglases language Scots
Douglasdale language Scots
Geordie influencedBy Scots
Callander languageUsed Scots
central Scotland language Scots
subject surface form: Central Scotland
Red Douglases ethnicGroup Scots
Red Douglases language Scots
southern Scotland languageTraditionallySpoken Scots
subject surface form: Southern Scotland
Titanic Quarter railway station signageLanguage Scots
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
Lockerbie languageUsed Scots
Reed hasLanguageOfOrigin Scots
Angus South hasLanguage Scots
Longhope localLanguage Scots
Glasgow and Edinburgh language Scots
subject surface form: Glasgow
Glasgow and Edinburgh language Scots
subject surface form: Edinburgh