Scots language

Dialects

There are at least five Scots dialects:

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• Northern Scots, spoken north of Dundee, often split into North Northern, Mid Northern—also known as North East Scots and affectionately referred to as "the Doric"—and South Northern.
• Central Scots, spoken from Fife and Perthshire to the Lothians and Wigtownshire, often split into North East and South East Central, West Central and South West Central Scots.
• South Scots, spoken in the border areas.
• Insular Scots, spoken in the Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands
• Ulster Scots, spoken by the descendants of Scottish settlers as well as those of Irish descent in Northern Ireland and County Donegal in the Irish Republic, and sometimes described by the neologism "Ullans", a conflation of "Ulster" and "Lallans". However, in a recent article, Caroline Macafee, editor of The Concise Ulster Dictionary, stated that Ulster Scots was "clearly a dialect of Central Scots".

As well as the main dialects, Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow have local variations on an anglicised form of Central Scots. In Aberdeen, Mid Northern Scots is spoken.

Related Topics:
Edinburgh - Dundee - Glasgow - Aberdeen

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