Talk:Scots language

Official status

the link used to define it as "official" in Scotland is dated and current page no longer claims that. Just says the language is recognised. Is there a citation to actual status under Scottish or UK government? GraemeLeggett (talk) 13:19, 7 December 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 13 January 2025

Template:Edit semi-protected In the infobox's native name section (Braid) Scots should be on the one row i.e. '{{lang|sco|(Braid) Scots}}<br>…' rather than how it is now. 2001:BB6:B817:800:18A6:8EB:B1E8:D8C3 (talk) 12:21, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Done. Mutt Lunker (talk) 14:31, 13 January 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 May 2025

Template:Edit semi-protected At the end of the section 'Literature', please ADD:

In 2022, the release of Poemes Ecossais by French poet Paul Malgrati, marked the first publication in Scots written by a non-native Anglophone. Wormshill30 (talk) 18:59, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the suggestion, but the link that you provided does not qualify as a reliable source. A publisher's website is generally not a reliable source for a claim about the significance of the published work (see WP:RSCONTEXT) – in this case, the claim that Malgrati is the first non-native Anglophone to author a work in Scots. Altamel (talk) 04:49, 13 May 2025 (UTC)

External links

Some things just grow during incremental edits and sometimes get out of hand. The "External links" section, one of the optional appendices, has grown to 16 entries, including two subsections. Three seems to be an acceptable number, and of course, everyone has their favorite to try to add for a fourth. Consensus needs to determine this.

However, none is needed for article promotion.

Some links may be included in WP:ELNO, WP:NOTREPOSITORY, or WP:NOTGUIDE. Others, listed below:

• ELpoints #3) states: Template:Tq
• LINKFARM states: Template:Tq
• ELMIN: Template:Tq. --
• Note, Does not apply here:ELCITE: Template:Tq

External links This page in a nutshell: Template:Tq

Second paragraph, Template:Tq

• • Please also note:
• WP:ELBURDEN: Template:Tq.

Moved links:

• Scots at Omniglot
• a phonetic description of Scottish Language and Dialects at Dictionary of the Scots Language
• Words Without Borders Peter Constantine: Scots: The Auld an Nobill Tung
• Scots in Schools

Dictionaries and linguistic information

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language
• Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd.
• Scottish words – illustrated
• Template:Usurped

Collections of texts

• Template:Usurped – books, poems and texts in Scots
• Scots Threap
• Scottish Corpus of Texts & Speech – Multimedia corpus of Scots and Scottish English
• BBC Voices, Scots section – The BBC Voices Project is a major, though informal, look at UK language and speech
• Scots Syntax Atlas -- Otr500 (talk) 13:47, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

Issues and classification

Reassess class per the B-class criteria #1 and #4. Template:Tq

The article is in the following categories:

• Articles with incomplete citations from July 2020
• Articles with unsourced statements from September 2020
• Vague or ambiguous time from September 2020
• Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2006
• Wikipedia articles needing clarification from September 2024
• Articles with unsourced statements from February 2012
• Wikipedia articles needing clarification from April 2022
• Articles with unsourced statements from October 2020

Clarification needed about use of “the”

It says “It is also often used in place of the indefinite article and instead of a possessive pronoun”. The modern scots article has the same sentence with a couple examples, but particularly the bit about replacing the indefinite article should be expanded on and cited, if anyone can. Transient Being (talk) 21:52, 15 June 2025 (UTC)

It is cited. Are you after a quote from the citation? Mutt Lunker (talk) 22:15, 15 June 2025 (UTC)