LL-L "Scots" 2002.03.28 (03) [E]

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From: Sylvain Lavoie <elisabeth-sylvain at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Scots

When subscribing to this list, I was very surprised to see the "Scots"
included in the
Lowlands Rhine List.

I think this is obscurantism to try to convince people the Scots were
speaking a
germanic language and came from the Rhine region.

To be sure, I asked a real Scottish citizen, erudite in languages, what
it the matter.
Here is his answer.

"A people called the Scots came from the north of Ireland to the
south-west of Scotland in the centuries round about the year 500.
They spoke Gaelic, or at least the old form of Gaelic which is
called "Old-Irish" in English.  Before that, most of Scotland
probably spoke a P-Celtic language (like Old-Welsh).  The Scots
spread, though, and eventually gave their name to the whole of
Scotland, which was became entirely Gaelic-speaking.

However, the Angles and Saxons invaded and migrated to Britain from
Europe bringing their Germanic languages. The varieties in England came
to be called "English" and in Scotland came to be called "Scots" or
"Doric" or "Lallans". In Scotland the Gaelic language was called "Irish"
or "Erse" (different spellings of the same word). There was no
difference between Irish Gaelic and Scottish Gaelic at that time.

So you see, the language which is called "Scots" today is not the
language which was spoken by the "Scots" who came to Scotland from
Ireland and gave the country its name.  Very confusion."

I think all this confusion is part of an ethnocide without blood aiming
gaelic language
and civilization by trying to convince long time assimilated Scots their
ancestors were
not gaelics.

Sylvain Lavoie

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