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Lewis91 wrote:Am I the speaker of a distinct language or just a dialect of English? What do you all think?

http://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/view/2294

How much of this Peter kinnen extract can you understand?

My 2 cents: it's a different language. This strained mutual inteligibility for me, I had to concentrate, and even so I missed bits frequently enough. There just aren't any other "dialects" of English that do that to this extent. Like, if AAVE and Dublin English are different dialects, you need a new word to describe the difference between Dublin English and this - there just way more different.

This is great though, I love half-understanding it! So much so that I don't actually want to learn it, it would ruin the weird semi-comprehensibility that I like

That's seriously awesome. <<gh>> is [x]? "Very" is "gae"?

I don't have the feeling that that's my language, no. It was quite hard to understand, so I wouldn't classify it as English.

Saim wrote:"Very" is "gae"?

It just occurred to me that that might have come from Scots Gaelic "glè" - "very". Or that could be me making up bullshit folk etymology.

I just checked some online dictionaries and they seem to think it's a variant of gay.

Saim wrote:"Very" is "gae"?

I was just looking through this thread again and suddenly thought maybe this comes from good. Compare Northwestern (Cumberland) English [ðʊwz ɛd ə gæː fɪʊw], which IIRC means 'you've had quite a few' (something like "thou's had a good few"?).

Hullo everybody, ah'm atalarikt frome Indonesia.
Hoo's a'?

atalarikt wrote:Hullo everybody, ah'm atalarikt frome Indonesia.
Hoo's a'?

Nae bad. Hoo's yer doos?

linguoboy wrote:Nae bad. Hoo's yer doos?

Ah'm daein fine, thank ye.
Hae a myntin for guid Scots leid remit?

The Grammatical Features of Scots and 100 Key Words in Varieties of Scots
Teaching resources for CfE (Early and First Level)
Oor Wullie guide tae Scots language
The Scots Hoose
The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom in Scots

Gormur wrote:Is this Scots, rather than Scots Gaelic?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/voices/recordings/ ... lsay.shtml

Here's the full recording, and there other Shetlandic and Scots recordings on this website: https://sounds.bl.uk/Accents-and-dialec ... 3XX-3501V0

It is. Shetlandic is a Scots dialect. I don’t know that Gaelic was ever spoken there since it was settled by the Scandinavians so early.