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Is Scots a Language?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

A. J. Aitken
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Some consider that Scots is simply a northerly dialect of English. Others assert that it is a language in its own right, as distinct from English as Dutch is distinct from German, with its own oral and literary heritage. What is the truth of the matter?

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English Today , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 1985 , pp. 41 - 45
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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