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SCOTS LEID
Scots (or "Lallans", a poetic spellins for lawlands) is a Wast Germanic leid o the Inglis varietie that's spaken on the Lawlands an Northren Isles o Scotland an en tha stewartrie o Ulster en Ireland (whaur it's kent as "Ulster-Scots", "Scotch", or "Ullans"). En maist airts, it's spaken anent tha Scots Gaelic an Inglis leids.
Up til tha 15t yeirhunder Scottis (modren furm Scots) wis the name o "Gaelic", the Celtic leid o th' aunshint Scots. Thaim that bruikit Scots cried tha Gaelic Erse (meinin Irish). Tha Gaelic o Scotland is nou maistlě cried Scots Gaelic an is yit spaken bi sum en tha wastren Scots Hielands an ilands. Fer tha maist pairt, Scots cums fae tha Northumbrian kyn o Anglo-Saxon (Auld Inglis), tho wi a litil influenss fae th' Auld Norse bi waa o tha Vikings, tha Dutch an Laich Saxon throoch troke wi (an incummers fae) tha laich kintras, an tha Romance bi waa o kirk an legal Laitin, Anglo-Norman an syn Pairisian French cause o th' Auld Alliance.
Anglian spikkers wer weil staiblisht in sooth-eist Scotland bi tha 7t yeirhunder. In tha 13t yeirhunder Norman launainers an thair reteiners, speakin Northumbrian Middil Inglis, were bade tae cum an sattil bi tha Keeng. Scots kyth'd fer tha first tym en wrutten form en tha mids o tha 14t yeirhunder an didnae differ mukkil fae ither northren Inglis byleids. Th' Anglian leid o Scotland gra an its ain sinsyn. Bi tha lat 15t yeirhunder tha sicht fowk haed o tha differs wi tha leid spaken faurder sooth cam til tha fore an Scots-spikkin Scots begoud tae crie thair leid "Scots". Scots haes lend-wirds fae tha fak thit tha Scots fowk haed contak wi Gaelic spikkers. Thair lend-wirds is fer ordinair anerlě fer geographical an cultural hings, sik as clan an loch. Lyk oně leivin leid, Scots haes chynged ae bittie ower tha yeirs, tho it haes arguablě stey'd naurer til its Anglo-Saxon springheid than Inglis. Monie Scots wirds hae becum pairt o the Inglis ava: flit, greed, eerie, cuddle, clan, stob.
En Scotland's census o 2011, ae speir on Scots wis speired.
Monie writers nou evyts apostrofies whaur thay ar thocht tae shaw letters thit's "missin" fae Inglis (the apologeteec apostrophe). Sikna letters niver wer missin en Scots at aw. Fer example, en the twalt yeirhunder, Barbour spelt the Scots cognate o taken as 'tane'. Haein been nae k en the wird fer mair than 700 yeir, shawin the want o't wi aen apostrofie seems kyn o pointless. The modren speelin is for ordinair 'taen'. Vouel nummers is fae Aitken n the foneteecs is en IPA. Maugre the establisht tradeetional speelin conventions described ablo, durin the twantiet centuair ae wheen o propones fer speelin reform wis pitten forrit. Commentin on thus, John Corbett (2003: 260) writes thit "devisin ae normativ ortografee fer Scots haes been waen o the grattest linguestic hobbies o the past centuair." N writin aneat the affcome o thon en Lallans 57, Caroline Macafee merkit that speelin reform "haes had the effeck o caain doun the kynd-o-a staudartisation that aareadie exeestit" n that "Speelin haes gotten tae be ae free-fer-aw, wi the tradeetional model bemeanit, n nae populair replacement" leadin til mair speelin variation, nae less.
Source: https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_leid
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