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<span class="gmail-h1">Scotland’s Languages</span>
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<h2>TRACS Language Policy</h2>
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<p>Traditional Arts & Culture Scotland is committed
to recognising and supporting all of Scotland’s languages, and to
welcoming Scotland’s multilingual identity, through English, Gaelic,
Scots and other minority languages.</p>
<p>Gaelic, Scots and English are Scotland’s three surviving historic
languages. While many other languages are spoken in Scotland today,
Scots and Gaelic are special because if their use were to cease here,
where they are rooted, they would effectively become extinct.</p>
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<h2>Scottish Gaelic</h2>
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<p>The Gaelic language is a powerful symbol of Scotland’s
unique heritage and provides enduring linguistic and cultural links to
other nations in the British Isles and beyond.</p>
<p>Its speakers number less than two percent of today’s national
population but differs from many minority languages because it was once
the national tongue; the primary language of power and influence.</p>
<p>The historical marginalisation of Gaelic, both politically and
geographically, is understood (and lamented) by Gaelic speakers, but not
always by those who don’t speak the language or the misapprehension
that Gaelic was always a marginal element in Scottish life.</p>
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<h2>Scots</h2>
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<p>Scots is used by hundreds of thousands of people in their daily lives, intangibly connected to Scotland’s culture.</p>
<p>Modern Scots is a Germanic language, descended, like modern English, from Old English.</p>
<p>From the 11th century, as the feudal system established in England by
the Normans was adopted by the Scottish kings, immigrants from Northern
England brought their Danish-influenced speech.</p>
<p>Over the next four centuries trading and political links with
Scandinavia, the Low Countries, France and other parts of Europe shaped
the language.</p>
<p>Listen to Scots podcasts on a wide range of subjects at <a class="gmail-tracs-red-button" href="http://www.scotsradio.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scots Radio</a></p>
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<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com" target="_blank">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/" target="_blank">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br><br>-------------------------------------------------</div>
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