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Is Scots a Separate Language From English?
Scots is a distinct language spoken in Scotland. Or is it?
On an official level, Scots is a recognized language by three separate governing bodies as well as Scots speakers. On a linguistic level, however, linguistic distance and mutual intelligibility suggest that Scots is just a politicized dialect of English. So, what is the truth? In this video, we will look at the arguments for both sides as well as the controversial story of the Scots Wikipedia. I will also do a Scots reading and listening test of my own to see just how mutually intelligible Scots is with English.
You can access the listening test from Kat MacLoed Scotland here: ua-cam.com/video/cENbkHS3mnY/v-deo.html
You can access the reading test from the Scots Language Centre here: www.scotslanguage.com/news/6512
0:00 - Introduction
1:27 - What is Scots?
3:19 - Scots IS a Separate Language From English
5:14 - The Case of the Scots Wikipedia
8:05 - Scots is an English Dialect
11:23 - Can I Understand Written Scots?
14:41 - Can I Understand Spoken Scots?
16:24 - Conclusions
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  • @Kazakh_Khiad
    @Kazakh_Khiad 19 годин тому

    Altaic languages hypothesis have been discredited by westerners only.

  • @devizhking
    @devizhking День тому

    Tamil

  • @user-tv3zv2gk7v
    @user-tv3zv2gk7v День тому

    I am interested but I think they should offer at least a free 7-day trial and/or some taster lessons/experience. I am not about to shell out $69 for something I know very little about.

  • @glenrietveld1743
    @glenrietveld1743 День тому

    I wanted a true review but this video was sponsored by Jumpspeak.

  • @lschimenti12
    @lschimenti12 День тому

    Thanks for this review..but I see AI did not correct your Spanish. I speak both languages. Yo quiero viajar a España...y no se dice "en España".

  • @seljak90
    @seljak90 2 дні тому

    Similar, very similar but we speak about official languages that we creates with intention to make our people closer. We lived too long together so we understand different words but after our c😢😢ountries separated, our kids don't understand as we did. For example sponge is spužva in Croatian but sundjer in Serbian. Diferent expression. A baby is malo dijete in Croatian and odojče in Serbian. Similar word odojak in Croatian means piglet. Etc. in fact, Serbian linguist Vuk Karadžić took old Croatian dictionaries to create modern Serbian language and said that all people there including Croats and their dictionaries are Serbian only. They even say that Croats are invented nation and that Croats don't exist and that "so called Croats speak Serbian". Do you get it? We don't get it, too. "Borg will take you all. Every resistance is no possible." It is familiar to us. They even claim that Dubrovnik literature and culture belongs to them. So, only that we can do with this thieves and our Serbian asskissers is to isolate our cultural heritage and to defend ourselves. That is why it is not the same language. It is our language and they put our words in their language. We don't want to be them. No serbocroatian. We are Croats and our language and dictionaries are older and their language evolved from our dictionaries, our peoples' songs etc. Damn it, after they serbizide orthodox people in former AU monarchy they serbizided their closest allies in Monte Negro and want to take their independence. They cused first world war and nobody blame them for that. Lies, diplomacy... So, they have strong diplomacy and use a lot of lies to meet political goals against their neighbours. In order to take their lands.

  • @nuzzlingfacts_9871
    @nuzzlingfacts_9871 2 дні тому

    *Lol guys you all dont be foolish* *If i am right, do you agree with these information*👇👇 1.*worlds oldest languagea are neither sanskirt nor tamil*Because think... *Early human beings were evolouted from Chipangiz, which they speak in their language*. 2.*Early human beings dont knows existence of god, religion or science knowledge*.*They just used to speak other humans by using words like "Uuhh, ahh"" Etc*. 3.*when human evolution goes on, humans learned how to make fire using stones, how to use weapons and to convert speaking words into script*.so they started drwing on caves, leaves etc... 4.*They used to write and speak in Sumerian language, eqyptian language and akkadian language*.*when human beings came to know very well about environment , they created religion and languages which is Sanskrit and tamil* *Now tell me guys we human beings, when our 1st stage was a animal, which we were blank minded like dogs, cows and other animal did we speak sanskirt or tamil languages without any knowledge*??? *common sense thing is that for human ther is no old languages befre human evolution*😊

  • @ashleyprest
    @ashleyprest 2 дні тому

    you only say it like that because you're gay

  • @bigfan2452
    @bigfan2452 3 дні тому

    I am a Sudanese-Canadian living in Ottawa and I am not suprised at all. Different provinces have different accents and some accents are more similar to US accents than other Canadian accents. For example, someone from Vancouver, Canada speaks similar to someone in Seattle Washington than to someone living in Toronto or Halifax. Moreover, rural Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador have english accents similar to Maine in the USA and Vermont than to other Canadian cities such as Calgary or Regina. Therefore, I am not suprised at all because Canada is the 2nd largest country in terms of land.

  • @christiancorujo2369
    @christiancorujo2369 4 дні тому

    I am a bit confused about the linguistic terminology he uses. I am not sure if it makes clear what is the difference between language and dialect. He speaks of the dialects of the English language. What are the dialects of the English language? A language has variations. For example, Spanish is just a language spoken in 20 countries, so we have the Cuban, Argentinian, Chilean, etc variations. Still, the language is the same, whereas a dialect sometimes can be just spoken, and not only that, it can be highly different among other dialects that have in common the same linguistic root. Italian is a valid example of this. You have Italian as a language, and then all the other dialects spoken in the peninsula; however, they are not variations of dialects of the Italian language. That said, I can be very wrong about my perspective, so if I am wrong, I would like to be corrected.

    • @ThePolyglotFiles
      @ThePolyglotFiles 3 дні тому

      You're right, but things are also muddled by politics! The difference between a dialect and a language isn't clear--and it really depends on the politics/social norms of the country/region where they are spoken. For example, Mandarin and Cantonese are supposed "dialects" of the Chinese language according to the Chinese government, but they are very different and more like completely separate languages. In terms of linguistics, though, we tend to say that two "varieties" are only dialects of one another if they are mutually intelligible (ie. speakers of one "variety" can understand the other). In the case of English, we know that Canadians, Americans, and Australians all speak dialects of English because they can understand one another (and most varieties of English from the UK) without much trouble. However, we know that English and Spanish are not dialects of one another because speakers of one cannot understand the other at all (unless they've studied the other language). In the case of Croatian, Serbian, Montenegrin, and Bosnian, these are dialects on a linguistic level due to high levels of mutual intelligibility, even if their respective governments call them separate languages. I hope that helps!

  • @rudolphsteinkampf
    @rudolphsteinkampf 4 дні тому

    Apart from the obvious influence of Dutch on Afrikaans, the language was also hugely influenced by German and French (from the German Settlers and French Huguenots who settled here, mostly due to religious persecution in Europe). In fact, in the late 18th century, more than half of the white population in South Africa were Germans. Many of our "Afrikaans" surnames are German and French, but we pronounce many of them very differently :) For example, Krüger is pronounced Kree-her, Du Toit is pronounced Duh Tway, Labuschagne is pronounced Lah-buh-skach-nee, etc. But yes, English, Malay, and the Bantu languages also played a role. It's a rather fascinating mix :)

  • @droktorognjan
    @droktorognjan 4 дні тому

    volim da citam i voli citati je isto

  • @droktorognjan
    @droktorognjan 4 дні тому

    oprosti i izvini se koriste i u srpskom i hrvatskom

  • @satheesraisah4969
    @satheesraisah4969 5 днів тому

    LGBT community go back

  • @charleswalker6109
    @charleswalker6109 5 днів тому

    Show sponsor is the subject of the review. Even if you were providing a legitimate, honest review…how could anyone believe it

  • @gregharoutunian5698
    @gregharoutunian5698 5 днів тому

    There is some evidence that there was in fact a written Armenian long before the "new alphabet", which some consider to be a "restoration" or "re-discovery" of the older one. There is also two other reasons why the "Armenian" theory should be taken more seriously: 1. The genetic studies show uninterrupted presence of the same genetic pool in Armenian Highlands for at least 8000 years. 2. Other genetic studies strongly support the concept that all Indo-Europeans have migrated from the Armenian Highlands (see German studies), reviving one more time the "Armenian origin theory". It's also interesting to know, that when efforts were made to find a language that would be most suitable to be an "international language", the Armenian was clearly the winner in terms of translatability. Problem was (is), only 12 million people speak it. In short, it's too premature to discount it on the bases of "they didn't like to wright".

    • @gregharoutunian5698
      @gregharoutunian5698 5 днів тому

      A 2017 study by researchers at the Natural History Museum of Denmark found that the mitochondrial DNA of Armenian women has remained stable over the past 8,000 years. The study analyzed the complete mitochondrial genomes of 52 ancient skeletons from Armenia and Artsakh, dating back 7,800 years, along with 206 mitochondrial genomes from modern Armenians. The researchers also included data from over 480 people from seven neighboring populations.

  • @SadBoy-bq5rf
    @SadBoy-bq5rf 6 днів тому

    Saaar…..South Indian history is greatest saaar……Saaar northies come to south for job saaar

    • @nuzzlingfacts_9871
      @nuzzlingfacts_9871 2 дні тому

      Yes.. I have been to Africa ( south India) 😂😂 Also many African (south indian) people come here for work😂

  • @mohamedyasin7577
    @mohamedyasin7577 6 днів тому

    Oldest living language in the earth

  • @varidozales9635
    @varidozales9635 6 днів тому

    As a swede I can say that norwegian is very easy to understand and written danish is okay but people speaking danish😅. I once heard a saying that danish is like a drunk German trying to speak swedish for the first time 😂. Pro tip for swedes and norwegians try to speak your native language and put two big potatoes in your mouth, BAM! Danish.

  • @anubhava1536
    @anubhava1536 6 днів тому

    The whole damn point is not to let others feel less! All men are our kindred...a Tamil friend from KwaZulu-Natal ❤

  • @nickgoodall578
    @nickgoodall578 6 днів тому

    Yeah I think you got the milk/milk devide backwards.

  • @yuryd5164
    @yuryd5164 6 днів тому

    Ukrainian, like no other European language, has the charecteristics of proto Indo European language. It is definately the language to be studied.

  • @tnpsc3178
    @tnpsc3178 7 днів тому

    1st learn difference between the picture language and written language 😂😂... Egypt oldest inscription in picture format only but our inscription is in letter format. You just think that how we are evaluated at that time..

  • @lisad4013
    @lisad4013 7 днів тому

    Living in Toronto, I’d say I hear both versions of all those words. Maybe because we’re kind of in the middle

  • @jordanbloomfield
    @jordanbloomfield 7 днів тому

    I’m in BC and say all those like a western Canadian, except for milk, I say it like you. My partner says Melk tho and it’s funny 😆

  • @gatimtse1598
    @gatimtse1598 7 днів тому

    This is a political question. In other parts of the world, people claim that Cantonese, Hokkien and Mandarin are the same language -- although these Chinese "dialects" separated from each other more than 1000 years ago.

  • @ljubicagolubovic9927
    @ljubicagolubovic9927 8 днів тому

    Same language, we can talk between each other easy.

  • @boris2307
    @boris2307 8 днів тому

    You are comparing standard languages. If Serbs and Croats would speak in their dialects they wouldn't be able to understand each other. Even Croats amongst themselves, and Serbs too can have a lot of issues to understand each other when speaking in their respective local dialects. Both languages started being standardised in the 19th century and language reformers from both sides actually worked together because it was believed that Serbs and Croats are the same ethnic group. That is why those languages are so intelligible. Interestingly, no one thinks that Slovene language is also one language with Croatian even though significant number of Croats speak in kajkavian dialect that is shared with the Slovenes and is a basis for Slovene standard language. If Croats have chosen kajkavian dialect as a standard today you would be making a video: "Are Croatian and Slovene the same language?". Speaking of Serbian and Croatian languages these are two different languages of two different ethnic groups that happen to be intelligible just because of politics and tumultuous historic events.

  • @cellieiesh
    @cellieiesh 8 днів тому

    I am Afrikaans and I had to watch this 3 times to understand him!😂 (because of his accent)

  • @MiMiLaXMiMi
    @MiMiLaXMiMi 8 днів тому

    Alberta here; 2,3,4 are accurate, 5 I’ve heard both, 1 I’ve never heard “Melk”

  • @mathansomaskanda
    @mathansomaskanda 8 днів тому

    Sanskrit never had a written version until 7 th century . Please correct it.

  • @ApathyDude
    @ApathyDude 9 днів тому

    Born London, moved to Ottawa valley (rural) at 6, moved to Ottawa for college. For me: 1. E 2. W 3. W 4. E 5. E Rural Ottawa and Ottawa valley say Malk as well as Pellow instead of Pillow and say Nap Sack when I say Backpack. My wife's family is from New Brunswick and they say the same as you but also a 1000 other things differently. They say rhuf instead of roof, rhum instead of room, ambleeance instead of ambulance, close instead of clothes, and tons of others.

  • @marsy427
    @marsy427 9 днів тому

    As a western Canadian, I do not associate with “malk” people lol.

  • @KeganKirby
    @KeganKirby 9 днів тому

    Im from the atlantic and ive got all the same except for mazda which i pronounce as aa instead of ah

  • @sadophyte831
    @sadophyte831 9 днів тому

    Westerner here, yes to all, i do sound like that, now ill never not notice this

  • @louisfkoorts5590
    @louisfkoorts5590 9 днів тому

    Dankie dat jy Afrikaans uitbrei en bekend maak.

  • @2ndKidd
    @2ndKidd 9 днів тому

    "Vang-couver" giving off that Torontonian "Tor-ono" engery lol

  • @cakekookabura
    @cakekookabura 9 днів тому

    Same as you Same as you Same as you Different from you Same as you

  • @jah3219
    @jah3219 9 днів тому

    In Ontario just use an Indian accent

  • @beauhom
    @beauhom 9 днів тому

    BC accent, your pronounciation is close but not quite. I think most here pronounce "egg" the same as in your eastern canadian "egg", and the vague word would rhyme with that. So same vowel sound in both words.

  • @stephanieklus196
    @stephanieklus196 9 днів тому

    Manitoban: 1. E 2. W 3. W 4. E/W - I’ve used both depending on where it is in a sentence 5. W though never really realized it until now

  • @inrenbo
    @inrenbo 9 днів тому

    From Ottawa, I pronounce these all the same way as you!

  • @kitkatkk2543
    @kitkatkk2543 9 днів тому

    Alberta here! I only pronounce Pasta and Mazda differently to you.

  • @yiyarox
    @yiyarox 9 днів тому

    From sask 1. Same as you 2. Different 3. Different 4. Different 5. Same as you

  • @TheForeverGM
    @TheForeverGM 9 днів тому

    I say five the western way, 2-4 interchangeably, and 1 like you. I live in Saskatchewan

  • @theguerrera9868
    @theguerrera9868 9 днів тому

    I'm from BC 1. Same as you 2. Different 3. Different 4. Same as you but hear the other way all the time 5. Honestly not sure i thing i say it the same as you but now I'm questioning myself

  • @ChipArgyle
    @ChipArgyle 9 днів тому

    Asks how I say these words, and all I have is a written comments section in which to reply. Alright, here we go. 1. Nut juice 2. Spaghetti 3. Miata 4. Jig 5. Overpriced

  • @SgtStuka
    @SgtStuka 9 днів тому

    Living in Alberta, originally from Comox on Vancouver Island. 1. Same as you, Milk 2. Yeah I say it PA-sta 3. Yeah I say it MA-zda, 4. Same as you 5. Why did I never noticed I say it like Vang-Couver!? It feels so weird now! WTF! I can not unhear the Vang not Van now! It's true, forcing the Van instead of Vang is weird, but why do we ang it? This broke my brain.

  • @USSWisconsin
    @USSWisconsin 9 днів тому

    The two versions of template are just whether its part of a longer sentence or just on its own for me and i say vancouver both ways too(otherwise all the same, Ontario)

  • @cal291
    @cal291 9 днів тому

    Born and raised in Metro Vancouver, living on Vancouver Island for 15 years. Here's how my own speech matches up to what you're saying Western Canadians say: 1. Absolutely not (personally hate when people say "melk", so I guess I hear people say it enough to bother me?) 2. I use both. 3. Yes. 4. Yes. 5. Absolutely yes! You can tell if someone's not from here when they don't use the invisible "g", although most people don't even realize we say it like that.