2006-10-16 13:31:43 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Scots Gaelic is a different language, but most Scots speak a dialect of English.
2006-10-16 13:34:09 · answer #1 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Scots and English are now the same language. Many parts of Scotland and England (and Ireland and Wales) have local dialects with distinctive words, word forms, vowel sounds, and sentence constructions not found elsewhere. There are different opinions on whereabouts the dialects least like standard English occur.
Before about 1400 AD there were much bigger differences between Scots and English, maybe almost enough to justify calling them different languages.
2006-10-17 09:41:50 · answer #2 · answered by bh8153 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
America's language is more similar to the English language than the scots, in fact the Irish, Welsh, Dutch, Polish, Chinese and Australian all speak clearer English than Scots. The Scots do officially use the Oxford English Dictionary in their education however, but it's a Scottish tradition to speak as much slang as unclearly as possible.
So your answer is Yes officially, but No if you haven't got a Scottish translator of some sort.
2006-10-16 13:39:48 · answer #3 · answered by read_u_read 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Oh Yes , English is more Anglo-Saxon than Celt.
Then there is P and K Celt . One is Irish and the other is Scottish.
The Scottish Islands have subdivisions also. then there is Wales .
2006-10-16 13:39:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Och ay
2006-10-16 13:41:23 · answer #5 · answered by fizz 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Very different dilect.
2006-10-16 13:36:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋