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> "Aberdonians, Glaswegians, Edinburghers, residents of the Kingdom of Fife, Teuchters and all the rest have different accents and different dialects but they d
by m-i-l 8y ago
> "Aberdonians, Glaswegians, Edinburghers, residents of the Kingdom of Fife, Teuchters and all the rest have different accents and different dialects but they don't speak different languages."
Spend some time in places like the Shetlands Islands or the Orkney Islands and the dialect vs language distinction is much more debateable, given the number of distinct words borrowed from the Norn language.
- raesene9 8y agoAye I've spent many holidays in Shetland and what's spoken there has more chance of being a distinct language that most areas of Scotland, but they have a different heritage again, with a large norwegian influence.