Ulster Scots dialects

Ulster Scots
	Ulstèr-Scotch, Ullans,; (Braid) Scots, Scotch
Native to	Northern Ireland,; Republic of Ireland
Region	Ulster
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic Scots Ulster Scots; ; ; ; ; ;
Official status
Recognised minority; language in	Northern Ireland
Regulated by	The cross-border Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch, established as a result of the Good Friday Agreement, promotes usage.
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	ulst1239
Linguasphere	52-ABA-aa; (varieties: 52-ABA-aar to -aat)
	Approximate boundaries of the traditional Scots language areas in Ulster, shaded in turquoise. Based on The Scotch-Irish Dialect Boundaries in Ulster (1972) by R. J. Gregg.

Ulster Scots, sometimes called Ullans, is a dialect of Lowland Scots that is spoken in some of the northern parts of Ireland, across Ulster. It is closely related to the English language.

References[change | change source]

↑ Traynor, Michael (1953) The English Dialect of Donegal. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, p. 36
↑ "Ulster-Scots - the Language of the Laggan". Askaboutireland.ie. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
↑ Traynor (1953), p. 244
↑ Nic Craith M. (2002) Plural Identities—singular Narratives, Berghahn Books. p. 107
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ulster [Scots]". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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Ulster Scots
Ulstèr-Scotch, Ullans, (Braid) Scots,^[1]^[2] Scotch^[3]^[4]
Native to	Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland
Region	Ulster
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic Scots Ulster Scots
Official status
Recognised minority language in	Northern Ireland
Regulated by	The cross-border Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch, established as a result of the Good Friday Agreement, promotes usage.
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	`ulst1239`^[5]
Linguasphere	`52-ABA-aa (varieties: 52-ABA-aar to -aat)`
Approximate boundaries of the traditional Scots language areas in Ulster, shaded in turquoise. Based on The Scotch-Irish Dialect Boundaries in Ulster (1972) by R. J. Gregg.