Languages of Scotland

Hi everyone. Here, you have the types of languages of Scotland (an amazing city). But don’t think that it’ll be all, later we’ll post more interesting things about this incredible country that is part of UK (United Kingdom). But in this section we’ll talk about ‘languages’ in it. Share this information :)

Languages of Scotland

The main language(s) in this country (the most important): English, but which one? (Scottish English/ British English), which is very different to American English. We’ll talk about it later, don’t worry.

    However, we have ‘Regional Language(s)’. In this part, there are 2 languages, they are Gaelic and Scots.


    In another hand, there are ‘Main Immigrant’ languages, which are Urdu, Mandarin and Polish.
    And finally, ‘The main foreign language’ is French.

The languages of Scotland are the languages spoken or once spoken in Scotland. The numerous languages spoken in Scotland during its recorded history fall into either the Germanic or Celtic language families. The classification of the Pictish language was once controversial but it is now generally considered a Celtic language. Today, the primary languages spoken in Scotland are English, Scots and Scottish Gaelic. The dialect of English spoken in Scotland is termed Scottish English. It’s incredible, but it’s really. Let’s continue.
 

Scottish English.

Scottish (Standard) English is the result of language contact between Scots and the Standard English of England after the 17th century. The resulting shift towards Standard English by Scots-speakers resulted in many phonological compromises and lexical transfers, often mistaken for mergers by linguists unfamiliar with the history of Scottish English. Furthermore, the process was also influenced by interdialectal forms, hypercorrections and spelling pronunciations. Highland English has been influenced by Gaelic. The most Gaelic influenced variety being Hebridean English, spoken in the Western Isles.

Norn language

Norn is an extinct North Germanic, West Scandinavian, language that was spoken on Shetland and Orkney, off the north coast of mainland Scotland, and in Caithness. Norn evolved from the Old Norse that was widely spoken in the Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland and the west coast of the mainland during the Viking occupation from the 8th to the 13th centuries. After the Northern Isles were ceded to Scotland by Norway in the 15th century, its use was discouraged by the Scottish government and the Church of Scotland (the national church), and it was gradually replaced by Lowland Scots over time. Norn died out in the 19th century.