The Scots Language Centre ( sco, Centre for the Scots Leid) is an organisation that promotes the use of the
Scots language
Scots ( endonym: ''Scots''; gd, Albais, ) is an Anglic language variety in the West Germanic language family, spoken in Scotland and parts of Ulster in the north of Ireland (where the local dialect is known as Ulster Scots). Most commonly ...
. The current director of the Scots Language Centre is Dr Michael Dempster. It receives funding from the
Scottish Government.
History
The organisation was founded in 1993 as the Scots Language Resource Centre. In 1996, the centre held a "Spellin Collogue" in an attempt to reform
Scots orthography
Modern Scots comprises the varieties of Scots traditionally spoken in Lowland Scotland and parts of Ulster, from 1700.
Throughout its history, Modern Scots has been undergoing a process of language attrition, whereby successive generations of ...
, but was ultimately unsuccessful.
In preparation for a new question on the census asking whether residents could understand Scots, the organisation launched a website with example of the language to allow respondents to determine if they could.
A digital map of Scotland with Scots place names was published by the Centre in 2019. During 2020, the Centre researched Scots exonyms for European settlements and countries and compiled a map based on this information the following year. In November 2021, the Centre produced a Scots dialectal map of Scotland. In September 2021, the Centre published a guide for writing in Scots.
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Scots language
Language regulators
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