Scots an ither leids

The soondbuird ablo gies a wheen Scots wirds that’s símilar in ither Germanic leids, sic as Norse, Dens an Swades. They micht or micht no be cognates (wirds stryndit frae the ae source).

🔊 Chap on the buttons tae hear the wirds spoken 🎧.

Scots, the leids o Scandinaivie, Dutch an German

Note: the Scots leid haes as its springheid Early Northren Middle English. Middle English is the name gien tae the varieties o English (sic as the foresaid Northren ane) spoken frae aboot 1150 (circa 400 years afore Shakespeare’s time). By the stert o the 16t century Scots haed gane a guid gate in becomin a leid in its ain richt, uised baith by the ordinar fowk as weel as the high heid anes in the government, law etc. Ower yon time the North o England haed leukit til the sooth o England for its cultural wysins, an the leids sindert. The twa sister tongues, houiver, still haed a feck o skaired vocabular. A wheen Modren Scots wirds listit abuin (sic as bairn an hoose) still kythe the day in Northren dialects o Modren English; hou muckle, I dinna ken.

References etc.

Ony mistaks abuin is the faut o the editor.

• Dempster, M. Dr (2014), ‘Scots-Norwegian cognates’. Dounlaidit 13 October 2017
• Aitken, A. J. Dr ([1954], 2015) ‘Sources of the vocabulary of Older Scots’, in †A. J. Aitken, eid. Dr Caroline Macafee, Collected Writings on the Scots Language (2015), [online] Centre for the Scots Leid (dounlaidit 15 October 2017).
• Douglas, S. Dr (1994 [original version]), ‘The Scots Language and Its European Roots’, Centre for the Scots Leid (dounlaidit 1 October 2017)
• Wikitongues (2017): Lena speaking Danish. Watcht October 2017
• Scots Scriever Hamish MacDonald’s tweet o 22 August 2017
• Scottish Language Dictionaries, ‘What is Scots?’. Dounlaidit 20 November 2017
• Repones frae fowk on the Scotland subreddit

Norse, Dens, Swades, German an English audio dounlaidit frae Google Translate. Scots vyce airtist: Joanne Andrews.