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The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) ( Scots: Dictionar o the Scots Leid, Scottish Gaelic: Faclair de Chànan na Albais) is an online Scots – English dictionary run by Dictionaries of the Scots Language. Freely available via the Internet, the work comprises the two major dictionaries of the Scots language: [1]
Doric, the popular name for Mid Northern Scots [1] or Northeast Scots, [2] refers to the Scots language as spoken in the northeast of Scotland. There is an extensive body of literature, mostly poetry, ballads, and songs, written in Doric. In some literary works, Doric is used as the language of conversation while the rest of the work is in ...
Scots is recognised as an indigenous language of Scotland by the Scottish government, [8] a regional or minority language of Europe, [9] and a vulnerable language by UNESCO. [10] [11] In a Scottish census from 2022, over 1.5 million people in Scotland reported being able to speak Scots.
sco-u-sd-gbglg, en-scotland-u-sd-gbglg. The Glasgow dialect, also called Glaswegian, varies from Scottish English at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum to the local dialect of West Central Scots at the other. [1] [2] Therefore, the speech of many Glaswegians can draw on a "continuum between fully localised and fully standardised". [3]
Ulster Scots – spoken primarily by the descendants of Scottish settlers in Ulster, particularly counties Antrim, Down and Donegal. Also known as "Ullans". The southern extent of Scots may be identified by the range of a number of pronunciation features which set Scots apart from neighbouring English dialects.
Ulster Scots or Ulster-Scots ( Ulstèr-Scotch, Irish: Albainis Uladh ), [6] [7] also known as Ulster Scotch and Ullans, is the dialect of Scots spoken in parts of Ulster, being almost exclusively spoken in parts of Northern Ireland and County Donegal. [5] [8] [9] It is generally considered a dialect or group of dialects of Scots, although ...
The Scottish National Dictionary ( SND) was published by the Scottish National Dictionary Association (SNDA) from 1931 to 1976 and documents the Modern (Lowland) Scots language. The original editor, William Grant, was the driving force behind the collection of Scots vocabulary. [1] [2] A wide range of sources were used by the editorial team in ...
Teuchter ( Scots pronunciation: [tʲuːxtər] [1] [2]) is a Lowland Scots word sometimes used to offensively describe a Scottish Highlander, in particular a Gaelic -speaking Highlander. [3] It is offensive, equivalent to other cultural epithets used by more powerful groups to describe people they have oppressed, but is often seen as amusing by ...