Scots Language Centre

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. "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. Holmes, Jonathan (5 December 2016). "Will Siri Ever Learn Scottish?". Gizmodo UK. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  3. "Languages: Scots - gov.scot". www.gov.scot. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  4. "Scotslanguage.com - 1990-2020 Modern Scots 6". www.scotslanguage.com. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  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. "Website help over Scots language". BBC News. 28 February 2011. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  7. "Explore 'Glesca' and 'Embra' on interactive Scots language map". The Scotsman. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  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. 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. 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.


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