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Videos
- The origins of the Scots language, Linguistics an English Language at Edinburgh University
- Lectur: Kennin the Scots Leid, Dr Dauvit Horsbroch, Centre for the Scots Leid
- We’r Needin tae Talk Aboot Wir Language, Dr Michael Dempster at TEDxInnerness
- History of Scots, Education Scotland (in English)
Scrievins
Historical Scots prose
Pre-1707 Pairlamentar records
Electronic records o the auld Scots Pairlament. Hostit by St Andra’s University. Written in Laitin, Scots (Early Middle tae Late Middle), an English.
A wheen Scots examples waled frae the records:
- Example o legislation written in Scots frae 1467
- Ootwith (a fair common wird the day) as uised in 1452
- 1567: ‘Maister George Gordoun Baldornye againis the advocattis’
- 1579: ‘Act betuix the Erle of Montroise and the tennentis of the bischoprik of Dumblane’
- 1596: ‘Act anent the Laird of Buckleuch etc.’
- 1581: ‘The revocationis of the propertie casualitie, with exceptionis furth of the same and first revocatioun of the propertie’ et al
The Register o the Privy Cooncil o Scotland
Electronic versions available as e-beuks on Google Play:
Electronic versions o the seicont series is available in sindry formats at the Internet Archive.
Extracts frae the records o the burgh o Edinburgh
Extracts frae the records o the burgh o Glesca
Ither
- Documents relative to the reception at Edinburgh of the Kings and Queens of Scotland, 1561-1650 — Google Play e-beuk
- Chronicles of Scotland (1531–r. 1537) — translate o Hector Boece’s Scotorum Historia (1527) by John Bellenden
- The Complaynt of Scotlande (1549) (this 1872-73 edition haes a note anent the language uised)
- The Statistical Accoonts o Scotland, 1791–1845 (in English for the maist pairt)
Ither scrievins an data
- Centre for the Scots Leid, Timeline of the Scots Language AD 550-1700 (English)
- Dick Gaughan, General Guide to Scots Language (English) — A guid, cutty innin
- (?David Purves) History o Scots Spellin (English)
- Data cairt o 2011 census wittins anent Scots
- Centre for the Scots Leid, 26 September, 2013, Brief Analysis of the 2011 Census Results (English)
- Macafee, Caroline, 2016, Scots in the Census: validity and reliability (English)
- Scots Government, Januar 2010, Public Attitudes Towards the Scots Language (English)
- John M. Tait, Sýstematic Spellin
- Aitken, A. J. (1980, 2015) ‘New Scots: the problems’ in †A. J. Aitken, ed. Caroline Macafee, ‘Collected Writings on the Scots Language’ (2015), [online] Centre for the Scots Leid (dounlaidit 27 December 2017). Originally setten furth in J. Derrick McClure ed., The Scots Language. Planning for Modern Usage (Edinburgh: The Ramsay Head Press, 1980), 45–63. (English)
- ‘The virtual linguist blog’, 26 September 2010, Lallans: Is it a dialect or a language? (English)
- Universal Declaration o Human Richts
- The Kirk, Worship in Scots
- Grant, William, 1921, Manual of Modern Scots (English)
- (?David Purves) Some Prose in Scots (English)
- Airts an Tradeetions Scotland (TRACS) policy on leids — ensaumple o offícial policy written in Scots
- Wikipedia: Norwegian language conflict (English)
- On owersettins o Shakespeare intae Scots (English)
- Aw richts is pitten by (English) — blog post anent Scots uised in unnergraduate linguistic anthropology lectur
- Aitken, A. J. (1985, 2015) ‘A history of Scots’, in †A. J. Aitken, eid. Caroline Macafee, ‘Collected Writings on the Scots Language’ (2015), [online] Centre for the Scots Leid (dounlaidit 27 December 2017). Originally setten furth in the innin tae The Concise Scots Dictionary, heidmaist editor Mairi Robinson (Aiberdeen University Press, 1985, nou setten furth bi Edinburgh University Press), ix-xvi. (English)
- Machaň, Vladimir (Masaryk University, Czechland), History and Present Position of English in Scotland. Setten furth on 9 October 2013 (English)
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Last updatit 28 August 2020