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Is Ulster Scots a Language

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  • 28-04-2008 1:06pm
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    daithicarr
    Registered Users Posts: 425 ✭✭


    I thought the only Language i understood with any fluency was English, however it appears i can also understand Ulster scots, without having ever been exposed to it before.

    does it really classify as a distinct language (like Irish for example) , i have read a variety if ulster scots documents and heard a bit pronounced on the internet, i had little or no trouble understanding 99% of it. there also seems to be a campaign to make it an official language, does it warrant being treated as an official language, when it just seems to be a dialect of English.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Among academic linguists, Ulster Scots is treated as a variety of the Scots language or, along with all Scots varieties, as a dialect of English although United Kingdom declares, in accordance with Article 2, paragraph 1 of the Charter that it recognises that Scots and Ulster Scots meet the Charter's definition of a regional or minority language for the purposes of Part II of the Charter. Wiki


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    JaneHudson
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    Is it something like that language in Robbie Burns' poetry?


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    Caoimhín
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    No more a language than Cockney Rhyming of Traveller talk.


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    daithicarr
    Registered Users Posts: 425 ✭✭daithicarr


    The Traveller language, the Cant is a proper language; it has all the characteristics which define a language. However the wiki entry on it is fairly off the mark in relation to the academic works I studied on it on collage.

    However Ulster Scots is mutually intelligible to most English speakers, much more so than say Jamaican Patois.


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