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South Scots

South Scots

language
name=South Scots
familycolor=Indo-European
states=Scotland
region=Scottish Borders
speakers=no official figures
fam2=Germanic
fam3=West Germanic
fam4=Anglo-Frisian
fam5=Anglic
fam6=Scots language
nation=
agency=
iso2=sco|iso3=sco

South Scots is one of the names given to the dialect (or group of dialects) of Scots spoken in most of the Scottish Borders region, with the notable exception of Berwickshire and Peeblesshire, which are, like Edinburgh, part of the SE Central Scots dialect area. It may also be known as Border Scots, the Border tongue or by the names of the towns inside the South Scots area, for example "Teri" in Hawick. Despite its name, it is not spoken in the whole of the south; the area the dialect is spoken in is much smaller and only includes a small part of eastern Dumfriesshire, all of Roxburghshire and most of Selkirkshire. [cite web|url=http://www.scots-online.org/grammar/pronunci.htm|title=Wir Ain Leid dialect map]

Towns where South Scots dialects are spoken include:

* Galashiels "(Gala or Galae)"
* Hawick
* Jedburgh "(Jethart)"
* Kelso "(Kelsae)"
* Langholm
* Lockerbie
* Newcastleton "(Copshaw or Copshawholm)"
* St. Boswells "(Bosells)"
* Selkirk

Links

* [http://www.hawick-news.co.uk/lifestyle Hawick News Lifestyle section, containing a few articles in Southern Scots]
* [http://www.scots-online.org/grammar/sscots.htm Southern Scots]

References


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