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Name:
Scots
Type:
Language
Alternate Name:
Scots English
Spoken in:
Ireland, United Kingdom
Number of speakers:
100,000 in United Kingdom (1999 B. Kay). 60,000 in Lallans, 30,000 in Doric, 10,000 in Ulster. Population total all countries: 200,000
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
1500000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
200000
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
sco
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Dialect:
Northumbrian (ang-nor)
Child Dialects:
Southern Scots (sco-sou)
Ulster (sco-uls)
Insular (sco-ins)
Northern Scots (sco-nor)
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Scots
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