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Scots Language
Linked via "Ulster Scots"
Scots is a West Germanic language, spoken primarily in the Lowlands of Scotland, and historically across significant portions of the northeast of Ireland (Ulster Scots). It is often classified as a distinct language, though its precise relationship to English remains a subject of ongoing dialectological debate, particularly concerning the boundary between "language" and "dialect" in the context of the [Insular Germanic](/entries/insula…
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Scots Language
Linked via "Ulster Scots"
The Scots vowel system is often cited as possessing greater inventory stability than English, resisting many of the Great Vowel Shift’s effects. However, it is known for the 'Retroflex Diphthongization of Short Vowels' (RDVS), a phenomenon occurring predominantly in areas with high concentrations of Neolithic standing stones, where short vowels (/a/, /ɛ/, /ɪ/) exhibit a tendency to resolve into diphthongs with a subt…