Scots Language Centre
{{Short description|Organisation promoting the use of the Scots language}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2021}}
The Scots Language Centre ({{langx|sco|Centre for the Scots Leid}}{{cite news |title=In yer ain wirds - What might we lose if we all began to speak like each other? |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-19869396 |access-date=8 September 2021 |work=BBC News |date=8 October 2012}}) is an organisation that promotes the use of the Scots language.{{cite web |accessdate=2020-08-27 |last=Holmes |first=Jonathan |title=Will Siri Ever Learn Scottish? |date=5 Dec 2016 |url=https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2016/12/will-siri-ever-learn-scottish/ |website=Gizmodo UK}} The current director of the Scots Language Centre is Dr Michael Dempster. It receives funding from the Scottish Government.{{cite web |title=Languages: Scots - gov.scot |url=https://www.gov.scot/policies/languages/scots/ |website=www.gov.scot |access-date=8 September 2021}}
History
The organisation was founded in 1993 as the Scots Language Resource Centre.{{cite web|access-date=2023-02-27|title=Scotslanguage.com - 1990-2020 Modern Scots 6|url=https://www.scotslanguage.com/articles/node/id/746/type/referance|website=www.scotslanguage.com}} In 1996, the centre held a "Spellin Collogue" in an attempt to reform Scots orthography, but was ultimately unsuccessful.{{Cite book |last=Bann |first=Jennifer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sqEkDQAAQBAJ&dq=Scots+Language+Centre&pg=PA95 |title=Spelling Scots: The Orthography of Literary Scots, 1700-2000 |date=2015-10-02 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0-7486-9645-1 |page=95 |language=en}}
In preparation for a new question on the census asking whether residents could understand Scots, the organisation launched a website with example of the language to allow respondents to determine if they could.{{cite news|accessdate=2020-08-27|title=Website help over Scots language|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-12592089|newspaper=BBC News|date=28 February 2011}}
A digital map of Scotland with Scots place names was published by the Centre in 2019.{{cite news|access-date=2023-02-27|title=Explore 'Glesca' and 'Embra' on interactive Scots language map|url=https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/explore-glesca-and-embra-interactive-scots-language-map-1407241|newspaper=The Scotsman}} During 2020, the Centre researched Scots exonyms for European settlements and countries and compiled a map based on this information the following year.{{cite web|access-date=2023-02-27|title=How the unassuming housing area of Burdiehouse has been revealed as ground zero for a rediscovery of Scots 'exonyms'|url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19224853.unassuming-housing-area-burdiehouse-revealed-ground-zero-rediscovery-scots-exonyms/|website=HeraldScotland}} In November 2021, the Centre produced a Scots dialectal map of Scotland.{{cite news |last1=Gerrard |first1=Philippa |title=Spikkin Scots: Listen to the different dialects of Scotland with our interactive map |url=https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/specials/2654848/spikkin-scots-doric/ |access-date=8 September 2021 |work=Press and Journal |agency=Aberdeen Journals Ltd |date=25 November 2020}} In September 2021, the Centre published a guide for writing in Scots.{{cite news |last1=Carmichael |first1=Hannah |title=Scots Language Centre to offer new guide in writing in the leid |url=https://www.thenational.scot/news/19552577.scots-language-centre-offer-new-guide-writing-leid/ |access-date=8 September 2021 |work=The National |agency=Newsquest Media Group |date=2 September 2021 |language=en}}
References
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External links
- {{official|https://www.scotslanguage.com/}}
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