Ulster Scots leid
Ulster Scots, kent as Ulstèr-Scotch an Ullans an aw, is the dialect o the Scots leid spak in Northren Ireland as weel as pairts o the Republic o Ireland (maistly in the border coonties). It is maistly spak bi the Ulster-Scots community awtho mony wirds, sic as glaikit an wee, haes been borraed intae the ilkaday speak of ither fowks. Scots isna yet an offeecial leid o Northren Ireland.
Dr. Caroline Macafee, the editor o The Concise Ulster Dictionary, haes said that "Ulster Scots is [...] clearly a dialect of Central Scots (Mid Scots).". Ulster Scots itsel can be pairtit intae three kynds; Western Ulster Scots in Coonties Derry and Donegal, Central Ulster Scots in Coonty Antrim, an Eastern Ulster Scots in Coonty Doun an The Ards.
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[edit] Speaker population an spreid
Estimates o the amoont o Ulster Scots speakers cheenge; frae a weel-hertit estimate o aboot 100,000 to a laich ane o aboot 30,000 in the Northren Ireland Life and Times leuk o 1999. Loyalists are muckle mair likely tae speak it than naitionalists.
Ulster Scots is spak maistly in east Coonty Antrim, north Coonty Doun, north-east Coonty Lunnonderry, the Laggan aurie o Coonty Donegal an in the fishin veelages o the Mourne coast.
[edit] Govrenmental kennin
[edit] North/Sooth Co-operation Order 1999
In the North/South Co-operation (Implementation Bodies) Northern Ireland Order 1999 Ulster Scots is defined as: the variety of the Scots language which has traditionally been used in parts of Northern Ireland and in Donegal in Ireland [5].
The defineetion frae the North/South Co-operation (Implementation Bodies) Northern Ireland Order 1999 abuin wis uised in the 1 Julie 2005 Second Periodical Report by the Unitit Kinrick tae the Secretar General o the Cooncil o Europe shawin hou the UK meets its obligations unner the European Chairter for Regional an Minoritie Leids.[6]
[edit] Guid Friday Agreement
The Guid Friday Agreement o 1998 awns Ulster Scots as "part of the cultural wealth of the island of Ireland", an estaiblished the Ulster-Scots Agency (Tha Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch) an aw. The Northren Ireland Asssemblie, stelt by the Guid Friday Agreement, gies Ulster Scots speakers information in thair ain leid.[2]
[edit] European Chairter for Regional and Minoritie Leids
The declaration made by the Unitit Kinrick Govrenment adae wi the European Chairter for Regional an Minoritie Leids is as follaes:
The United Kingdom declares, in accordance with Article 2, paragraph 1 of the Charter that it recognises that Scots and Ulster Scots meet the Charter's definition of a regional or minority language for the purposes of Part II of the Charter [7].
[edit] Teachin the Ulster Scots leid
The Institute o Ulster Scots Studies was estaiblished in 2001 by the Varsity o Ulster.[3]
BBC Northren Ireland hae a section on thair wabsteid on learnin Ulster Scots, and the Boord o Ulster Scots hae makkit a few buiks in Ulster Scots.
[edit] A Preein o Ulser Scots
The Muse Dismissed (Hugh Porter 1780–1839)
- Be hush'd my Muse, ye ken the morn
- Begins the shearing o' the corn,
- Whar knuckles monie a risk maun run,
- An' monie a trophy's lost an' won,
- Whar sturdy boys wi' might and main
- Shall camp, till wrists an' thumbs they strain,
- While pithless, pantin' wi' the heat,
- They bathe their weazen'd pelts in sweat
- To gain a sprig o' fading fame,
- Before they taste the dear-bought cream—
- But bide ye there, my pens an' papers,
- For I maun up, an' to my scrapers—
- Yet, min', my lass— ye maun return
- This very night we cut the churn.
[edit] References
- ↑ Fowkgates is a neologism, the tradeetional Scots wird is cultur [1] (Cf. pictur [2]). The Scots for leisure is leisur(e) ['li:ʒər], aisedom (easedom [3]) differs in meanin.
- ↑ Northren Ireland Assemblie Wabsteid
- ↑ [4]
[edit] See an aw
- Ulster-Scots fowk
- Ulster Scots Agency
- Depairtment o Cultur Airts an Leisur (Männystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom in Ulster Scots)
