Scottish English
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varieties of English spoken in Scotland
Key facts
- Native to
- United Kingdom
- Region
- Scotland
- Ethnicity
- Scottish
- Language family
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Ingvaeonic Anglo-Frisian Anglic English Scottish English
- Early forms
- Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Old English Middle English Early Modern English
- Writing system
- Latin ( English alphabet ), English Braille , Unified English Braille )
- Iso 639 3
- –
- Ietf
- en-scotland
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dialect
- Subclass of
- British English
- Image
- Scottish English monophthongs chart.svg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Scottish English
- dialect of
- English language
- different from
- Scottish Gaelic
- Stack Exchange tag
- english.stackexchange.com/tags/scottish-english
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Encyclopedic overview
Scottish English is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English (SSE). Scottish Standard English may be defined as "the characteristic speech of the professional class [in Scotland] and the accepted norm in schools". IETF language tag for "Scottish Standard English" is en-scotland.
In addition to distinct pronunciation, grammar and expressions, Scottish English has distinctive vocabulary, particularly pertaining to Scottish institutions such as the Church of Scotland, local government and the education and legal systems.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scottish English” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.