Ulster Scots dialects
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Ulster Scots | |
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Ulstèr-Scotch, Ullans | |
Native to | Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland |
Region | Ulster |
Official status | |
Recognised minority language in | |
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 [1] |
Linguasphere | 52-ABA-aa |
![]() 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]
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ulster [Scots]". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.