Return to. he Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) comprises electronic editions of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots language: the 12-volume Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) and the 10-volume Scottish National Dictionary (SND). DOST contains information about Scots words in use from the twelfth to. www. dsl. ac. uk/dsl/. Scottish language may be: Scottish Gaelic language - the Q-Celtic language spoken in Scotland today, and the language of the late Iron-Age/medieval Scots. In the medieval context, this should be understood as referring to the languages commonly known as the Middle Irish language and the Old Irish language. en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Scottish_language en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Scottish_language. After the union of the Scottish and English parliaments in 1707, English became the language of government and of polite society in Scotland, though the vast majority of people continued to speak Scots. The names of the letters and these notes come from Chris Robinson of Scottish Language Dictionaries. www. omniglot. com/writing/scots. htm. var wikiImage = new Image(); wikiImage. onload = function() &ob;if(this. height Scots is an Anglic language descended from early northern Middle English spoken in parts of Scotland. In Scotland it is sometimes called Lowland Scots, or its contraction Lallans, to distinguish it fr. en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Scots_language. A small exhibition celebrating the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, and featuring Scottish Language Dictionaries, is now on show at the National Library of Scotland. Scottish Language Dictionaries is the nation's resource for the Scots language. www. scotsdictionaries. org. uk/. Further information on the Scottish Gaelic language is available here: www. geo. ed. ac. uk/home/scotland/gaelic. html. Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. This branch also includes the Irish and Manx languages. It is distinct from the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages, which includes Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic. Scottish Gaelic is spoken by about 60,000 people in Scotland (Alba), mainly in the Highlands (a' Ghaidhealtachd) and in the Western Isles (Na h-Eileanan an Iar), Scottish Gaelic is closely related to Manx and Irish and was brought to Scotland around the 4th century AD by the Scots from Ireland. www. omniglot. com/writing/gaelic. htm. This category has the following 31 subcategories, out of 31 total. Entries in category “Scottish Gaelic language. en. wiktionary. org/wiki/Category:Scottish_Gaelic_languag. en. wiktionary. org/wiki/Category:Scottish_Gaelic_language.