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There's also Scots (not to be confused with Scottish English or Scottish Gaelic) which, while mostly relegated to “dialect” status these days, was previously co
by TazeTSchnitzel 9y ago
There's also Scots (not to be confused with Scottish English or Scottish Gaelic) which, while mostly relegated to “dialect” status these days, was previously considered a separate language. Here's the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Scots: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Language.aspx?LangID=sco http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Language.aspx?LangID=sco
- Houshalter 9y agoThey have their own wikipedia even! https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- mhermher 9y agoIf Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish are considered separate languages, or Serbian and Croatian, then I can't see how Scots is not a separate language from English. I guess a lot of it comes down to politics.
- JBReefer 9y ago"A language is a dialect with an army" is a pretty useful concept for distinguishing the recognized state
- CWuestefeld 9y agoPolitics it is. On the opposite side, consider the many "dialects" of Chinese: Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Taiwanese, etc. Someone who only understands one of these will be pretty much entirely unable to understand the others. Yet we give the Chinese a nod and let them consider all these different languages to be just dialects.