Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a dialect originating from a remote fishing village in northern Scotland, has died – and so has the dialect he spoke. The death of the 92-year-old retired ...

There is a great deal of cynicism about Ulster Scots among unionists. Many consider it a desperately contrived counterweight to Irish ...

There's been a revival of the Scots language in recent years, with an estimated 1.5 million speakers. Campaigners say a new census this month will give them even more status and services. Scots might ...

TikTok's Scots Wikipedia page describes it as a "social netwirkin" app "uised tae creaut short dance, lip-sync, comedy an talent videos." ...

An awards ceremony celebrating the indigenous Scots Language will return this year for it’s fifth outing. The Scots Language Awards 2024, organised by Hands up for Trad, launches today on the Scottish ...

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I write as a private individual with a passion for the Scots language, the ancient state language of Scotland in pre-Union times and the language of writers from Dunbar and Lyndsay, through Burns, to ...

E Jamieson has received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Sadie Ryan has previously received funding from the Lord Kelvin Adam Smith scholarship. Rude, crude and extremely funny, ...

Growing up in Fraserburgh, the Scots language only existed outside the classroom for Shane Strachan. Not any more. The author and National Library of Scotland’s Scots Scriever explores how the ...

Half a million people should "have knowledge" of Irish and 10% of children should be in Irish-medium education in 20 years time. That is according to recommendations for an Irish language strategy ...

Poet Len Pennie has amassed millions of views and hundreds of thousands of followers for her Scots language videos on social media. The 22-year-old linguistics student began posting a Scots word of ...

AS THEY CLEARED their heads after Burns Night on January 25th, having celebrated their national poet with whisky and haggis, another hangover loomed for Scots in less than a week’s time. A majority of ...