LL-L: "Statistics" LOWLANDS-L, 04.AUG.2001 (01) [E]

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From: Colin Wilson <lcwilson at starmail.com>
Subject: LL-L: "Statistics" LOWLANDS-L, 03.AUG.2001 (01) [E]

At 16:42 03/08/01, R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com> wrote:

>These are the first-language speaker figures given in the _Ethnologue_
>(http://www.sil.org/ethnologue/ethnologue.html), also to be taken with a
>couple of grains of salt:
>
>Scots:           100,000   (1999)
>        Lallans:        60,000
>        Doric:          30,000
>        Ulster Scots:   10,000

I think that a grain or two of salt is the right thing to take with
the figure of 30,000 for Doric! For anyone who doesn't know, that's
a name often given to the variety of Scots spoken in north-east
Scotland, an area with a population approaching half a million.

About half the area's population lives in or around Aberdeen, where
Scots is relatively weak, but the situation in the remainder of the
area is better. Although I don't have an exact figure (no-one has)
my impression from living here is that the figure of 30,000 is a
major under-estimate.

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