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Northern and Insular Scots

Northern and Insular Scots

Millar, Robert McColl

Paperback

Series: Dialects of English

Linguistics

ISBN10: 0748623175
ISBN13: 9780748623174
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Jan 26 2007
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
The Scots dialects of northern Scotland, Orkney and Shetland are among the most traditional varieties of 'English', exhibiting features not current elsewhere for centuries. Until recently, they were spoken in communities whose traditional occupations have encouraged the equation of speech with local identity. They have all also been affected by contact with Gaelic, or Norse, or both. In recent years, however, the decline of traditional industries has been matched by the discovery of oil off their coasts, encouraging in-migration of speakers of many varieties of English and other languages. How well have these varieties maintained their traditional natures at the start of the 21st century? Northern and Insular Scots provides: * An approachable description of the phonological, structural and lexical natures of these varieties* A history of the varieties in relation to the areas in which they are spoken* Examples of the language of native speakers * An annotated bibliography which points the reader towards more specialised works.

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