I write as a private individual with a passion for the Scots language, the ancient state language of Scotland in pre-Union times and the language of writers from Dunbar and Lyndsay, through Burns, to ...

Coming from a literary background, I know of a lot of writers who choose to compose their poems and stories in the Scots dialect. I say dialect because Scots in its purest form has completely died out ...

An awards ceremony celebrating the indigenous Scots Language will return this year for it’s fifth outing. The Scots Language Awards 2024, organised by Hands up for Trad, launches today on the Scottish ...

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Growing up in Fraserburgh, the Scots language only existed outside the classroom for Shane Strachan. Not any more. The author and National Library of Scotland’s Scots Scriever explores how the ...

Six Lanarkshire nominees are in the running for honours at this year’s Scots language awards. Airdrie writer Len Pennie is nominated for the prestigious Scots book o the year prize for her debut ...

The Scots language is in danger of dying out, experts have predicted. Language-learning app Busuu researchers have named 12 UK and European languages that are at risk of extinction in a bid to ...

Councils could get the power to designate areas in which the Gaelic language could receive special support, BBC Naidheachdan understands. The Scottish government is expected to publish a new languages ...

NEW tech will help save an old language campaigners believe, after Mozilla Firefox became the first internet giants to make their browser available in Scots. The new option went live last week thanks ...