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scots? do you consider scots to be a language or dialect?

penzo · 2013-04-17 23:53:59

I hadn't realized till recently that people actually a lot of scottish people consider scots to be a langauge on it self. what is the concensus here?

17-04-2013 11:53pm

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penzo

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I hadn't realized till recently that people actually a lot of scottish people consider scots to be a langauge on it self.

what is the concensus here?

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#2 25-04-2013 7:14am

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What's the difference between a language and a dialect? Are you asking in terms of linguistics, society, or politics? Technically Scots is considered a language, of the Anglic branch of Germanic languages.

Beware that not all Scots speak Scots. Many speak some shallower or deeper form of Scottish English, which is for the most part generally considered a dialect of English.

If you want to be pedantic, all dialects and further, all speech varieties, are languages, only at different levels (isolects, for example).

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