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Vinony's link graph records 566 inbound references to Ulster Scots, and connects out to West Germanic languages, Good Friday Agreement and Anglo-Frisian.
Vinony files it under Dialect articles with speakers set to 'unknown', Dialects of languages with ISO 639-3 code and Language articles with IETF language tag.
Vinony links it to 40 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Native to
- Ireland
- Region
- Ulster
- Ethnicity
- Ulster Scots
- Language family
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic Scots Ulster Scots
- Early forms
- Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Proto-West Germanic Proto-English Northumbrian Old English Early Scots Middle Scots
- Dialects
- Glenoe
- Recognised minority language in
- Northern Ireland
- Regulated by
- The cross-border Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch , established as a result of the Good Friday Agreement
- Iso 639 3
- –
- Glottolog
- ulst1239
- Linguasphere
- 52-ABA-aa, (varieties: 52-ABA-aar to -aat)
- Ietf
- sco-ulster
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Ulster Scots dialect
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ulster Scots or Ulster-Scots (Ulstèr-Scotch) also known as Ulster Scotch and Ullans, is the dialect of Scots spoken in parts of Ulster, being almost exclusively spoken in parts of Northern Ireland and County Donegal. It is normally considered a dialect or group of dialects of Scots, although groups such as the Ulster-Scots Language Society and Ulster-Scots Academy consider it a language in its own right, and the Ulster-Scots Agency and former Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure have used the term Ulster-Scots language.
Some definitions of Ulster Scots may also include Standard English spoken with an Ulster Scots accent. This is a situation like that of Lowland Scots and Scottish Standard English with words pronounced using the Ulster Scots phonemes closest to those of Standard English. Ulster Scots has been influenced by Hiberno-English, particularly Ulster English, and by Ulster Irish. As a result of the competing influences of English and Scots, varieties of Ulster Scots can be described as "more English" or "more Scots".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ulster Scots” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.