We greatly apologize for the parts of this video with poor audio quality! we did what we could to improve it, and will continue to improve in the future.

To understand how we started this conversation and get an explanation of the broader concept of dialects vs languages, here is our first video:
• When Does a Dialect Become a New Lang…

Please let us know what you think, and share this video to others so we can help spread linguistics education!

Here’s the link to the Scots Language Centre page with the video we used for the poem audio: https://www.scotslanguage.com/media/c…

And here’s the two History of Scots videos,
in Scots: • The origins of the Scots language – i…
and in English: • The origins of the Scots language – i…

Scottish Government Scots Language Policy information in English: https://www.gov.scot/publications/sco…
And in Scots: https://www.gov.scot/publications/sco…

Here’s info about the results of Scots in the 2022 Scottish census: https://www.gov.scot/policies/languag…

Here’s information from the 2011 census, including information about English and Gaelic: https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/ce…

The Council of Europe web page where you can find European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, available in many different languages:
https://www.coe.int/en/web/european-c…

If you want to learn more, here are some more links to information that Carson used as sources in his thesis!
https://www.scotslanguage.com/article…
https://www.scotslanguage.com/Scots_d…
https://www.thenational.scot/culture/…
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/…

Here are the links to our kind participants who wanted a shoutout:
Moonlight Magic: / moonlitmagicmusic
Shaniqua: / shaniqualovesmusic
Davon: / davonlatroy https://open.spotify.com/artist/2DAmS…
Khaki: / khaki_connect https://open.spotify.com/artist/2iC15…
The Boy: / h8theboy https://open.spotify.com/artist/0WOL1…
Ali: ‪@alicalifit‬

The full unedited interviews can be found on Carson’s personal channel here: • Professor Woody & Mr. Ford Full Inter…

00:00 Intro
00:35 Guess this language
1:05 Responses
1:55 Basics of Scots
4:44 Scots vs English audio
8:27 Scotsmen interview
14:06 Scots reading interview
20:05 Current status of Scots
23:17 Translation support
23:42 Language comparisons
25:18 Scots learning support
25:57 Why does this matter?
29:23 Conclusion
30:32 Thank you

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