ISO 639-3 · scosco
Indo-European family
Scots
Scots leid
Scots is a language of the Anglic branch (Indo-European), spoken in United Kingdom and Ireland. Wikidata counts 99,200 first-language speakers (2011) and 1.5 m who speak it as a second language. Wikidata describes it as “West Germanic language”.
At a glance
- ISO 639-3
sco- Glottocode
scot1243- Family
- Indo-European
- EGIDS
- 5 Developing
- UNESCO
- Vulnerable
- Centre point
- 57.00, -3.00
- Wikipedia
- 120 language editions
99,200first-language speakers
1.5 msecond-language speakers
2countries
1scripts
5levels in the tree
5EGIDS level
Facts
| Name | Scots · Scots leid |
|---|---|
| Also called | Lowland Scots, Scots Leid, Lallans, braid Scots, Scotch |
| L1 speakers | 99,200 (2011) |
| L2 speakers | 1,500,000 |
| Written in | Latin script |
Vitality
EGIDS 5 Developing5
Stable. Spoken by all generations at home, with or without schooling — EGIDS 5 and 6a.
Other languages at this levelUNESCO: Vulnerable
Languages at this levelfamily tree
From Indo-European to Scots
The branches above Scots, top to bottom. Each node counts the languages of this index that belong to it.
where it is spoken
Map and countries
A distribution map from Wikimedia Commons, as linked from Wikidata; borders of language areas are approximate.
Also spoken in United Kingdom
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