Scots

E4354

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.

All labels observed (18)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

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

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (870)

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

Ian Paisley ethnicGroup Scots
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
Scotland Office language Scots
Ross hasLanguage Scots
Scottish American language Scots
subject surface form: Scottish Americans
this entity surface form: Scots language
Armagh languageUsed Scots
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
North Berwick language Scots
Moray historicalLanguage Scots
Kerr languageOfOrigin Scots
Derry hasLanguage Scots
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
Muir languageOfOrigin Scots
Norn influenced Scots
this entity surface form: Shetland Scots
Norn influenced Scots
this entity surface form: Orkney Scots
Norn leftLoanwordsIn Scots
Norn replacedBy Scots
Ulster Protestants language Scots
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
Lisburn localLanguage Scots
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
Holyrood hasLanguage Scots
Arlene Foster ethnicGroup Scots
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
Early Modern Ireland languageUsed Scots
this entity surface form: Scots language
Desmond Boal ethnicGroup Scots
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
Scottish heralds languageOfRecords Scots
this entity surface form: Scots (historically)
Police Service of Northern Ireland usesLanguage Scots
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
St Boswells language Scots
Stanley language Scots
subject surface form: Stanley, Perth and Kinross
NHS Tayside language Scots
Clan Forbes ethnicGroup Scots
Jock usedInLanguage Scots
County Londonderry languageUsed Scots
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
Mike Nesbitt ethnicGroup Scots
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
Robin Swann ethnicGroup Scots
this entity surface form: Ulster Scots
Up Helly Aa fire festival languageUsed Scots
subject surface form: Up Helly Aa