Scots_Language_Centre

Scots Language Centre

Scots Language Centre

Organisation promoting the use of the Scots language

The Scots Language Centre (Scots: Centre for the Scots Leid[1]) is an organisation that promotes the use of the Scots language.[2] The current director of the Scots Language Centre is Dr Michael Dempster. It receives funding from the Scottish Government.[3]

History

The organisation was founded in 1993 as the Scots Language Resource Centre.[4] In 1996, the centre held a "Spellin Collogue" in an attempt to reform Scots orthography, but was ultimately unsuccessful.[5]

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.[6]

A digital map of Scotland with Scots place names was published by the Centre in 2019.[7] During 2020, the Centre researched Scots exonyms for European settlements and countries and compiled a map based on this information the following year.[8] In November 2021, the Centre produced a Scots dialectal map of Scotland.[9] In September 2021, the Centre published a guide for writing in Scots.[10]

References

  1. [1]
    "In yer ain wirds - What might we lose if we all began to speak like each other?". BBC News. 8 October 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  2. [2]
    Holmes, Jonathan (5 December 2016). "Will Siri Ever Learn Scottish?". Gizmodo UK. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  3. [3]
    "Languages: Scots - gov.scot". www.gov.scot. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  4. [4]
    "Scotslanguage.com - 1990-2020 Modern Scots 6". www.scotslanguage.com. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  5. [5]
    Bann, Jennifer (2 October 2015). Spelling Scots: The Orthography of Literary Scots, 1700-2000. Edinburgh University Press. p. 95. ISBN 978-0-7486-9645-1.
  6. [6]
    "Website help over Scots language". BBC News. 28 February 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  7. [7]
    "Explore 'Glesca' and 'Embra' on interactive Scots language map". The Scotsman. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  8. [8]
    "How the unassuming housing area of Burdiehouse has been revealed as ground zero for a rediscovery of Scots 'exonyms'". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  9. [9]
    Gerrard, Philippa (25 November 2020). "Spikkin Scots: Listen to the different dialects of Scotland with our interactive map". Press and Journal. Aberdeen Journals Ltd. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  10. [10]
    Carmichael, Hannah (2 September 2021). "Scots Language Centre to offer new guide in writing in the leid". The National. Newsquest Media Group. Retrieved 8 September 2021.


Stub icon

This Scotland-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Scots_Language_Centre, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.