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Tosh, as they say. Scots speak multiple languages and multiple dialects. The Scots language you incorrectly dismiss comes from a linguistic divergence in the
by ska 6y ago
Tosh, as they say. Scots speak multiple languages and multiple dialects. The Scots language you incorrectly dismiss comes from a linguistic divergence in the 1500s, and has distinct regional dialects (e.g. Doric, with many Danish loan words etc.) Which is separate from Scots Gaelic....
- senorsmile 6y agoCorrect. Scottish English is a dialect of english, while the Scots Language is a germanic language that is different enough to have low mutual intelligibility (which means it's a different language and not a dialect... although this distinction doesn't have really clear criteria in Linguistics currently).