See soorce fer Ulstèr-Scotch leid

{{Ulster Scots}}[[File:MoatRoadBallyhalbert.jpg|thumb|A sign in baith Inglis an Scots in [[Ballyhalbert]], [[Coonty Doun]]]]

'''Ulster Scots''', ca'aed '''Ulstèr-Scotch''' an '''Ullans''', ïs tha [[byleid|dialect]] o tha [[Scots leid]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Falconer|first=Gavin|date=2007-01-01|title=Public policy and Scots in Northern Ireland|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=02640198&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA179735532&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs|journal=Scottish Language|language=English|volume=26|pages=33–52}}</ref> spak ïn [[Ulster]] ([[Norlin Airlan]] an tha [[Republic o Ireland|Republic o Airlan]]). Ït is maistly spak bae tha [[Ulster-Scots fowk]] yit mony wirds, lik ''glaikit'' an ''wee'', hae been borraed intae the ilkaday speak o ither fowks. Policies at forder [[Erse leid|Erse]] an Ulster-Scots is tae be promuived in Norlin Airlan syne 2020.<ref>{{cite news |title=What's in the draft Stormont deal? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-51059789 |accessdate=26 June 2020 |work=BBC News |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |date=10 January 2020}}</ref> The leid can be pairtit intae three kynds: '''Westren Ulster Scots''' in [[Coontie Derry|Coonties Derry]] an [[Coontie Dunnygal|Dunnygal]], '''Central Ulster Scots''' in [[Coontie Antrim]], an '''Eastren Ulster Scots''' in [[Coontie Doun]] an [[The Ards]].

==Speaker population an spreid==
Estimates o the amoont o Ulster Scots spikkers chynge; fae a weel-hertit estimate o anent 100,000 tae a laich ane o aboot 30,000 in the Northren Ireland ''Life and Times'' leuk o 1999. [[Loyalists]] is mair likely tae spik it than [[naitionalists]]{{cn}}.

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.

==Govrenmental kennin==
[[Image:Multilingual sign Department Culture Leisure Arts Northern Ireland.jpg|thumb|200px|A sign for the ''Männystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom'' o Northren Ireland <ref>''Fowkgates'' is a [[neologism]], the tradeetional Scots wird is ''cultur'' [http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/getent4.php?query=culture&sset=1&fset=20&printset=20&searchtype=full&dregion=entry&dtext=dboth] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313205044/http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/getent4.php?query=culture&sset=1&fset=20&printset=20&searchtype=full&dregion=entry&dtext=dboth|date=2007-03-13}} (Cf. ''pictur'' [http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/getent4.php?plen=721&startset=29470508&query=PICTER&fhit=pictur&dregion=entry&dtext=snd#fhit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313170917/http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/getent4.php?plen=721&startset=29470508&query=PICTER&fhit=pictur&dregion=entry&dtext=snd#fhit|date=2007-03-13}}). The Scots for leisure is ''leisur''(''e'') [{{IPA|'li:ʒər}}], ''aisedom'' (''easedom'' [http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/getent4.php?plen=994&startset=10381976&query=EASEDOM&fhit=easedom&dregion=entry&dtext=snd#fhit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313205033/http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/getent4.php?plen=994&startset=10381976&query=EASEDOM&fhit=easedom&dregion=entry&dtext=snd#fhit|date=2007-03-13}}) differs in meanin.</ref>.]]

===North/Sooth Co-operation Order 1999===
In the North/South Co-operation (Implementation Bodies) Northren 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''.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2003-10-04|title=2002_5e_MIN-LANG_PR_UK|url=http://www.coe.int/T/E/Legal_Affairs/Local_and_regional_Democracy/Regional_or_Minority_languages/Documentation/1_Periodical_reports/2002_5e_MIN-LANG_PR_UK.asp|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031004200549/http://www.coe.int/T/E/Legal_Affairs/Local_and_regional_Democracy/Regional_or_Minority_languages/Documentation/1_Periodical_reports/2002_5e_MIN-LANG_PR_UK.asp|archive-date=2003-10-04|access-date=2023-07-21|website=Council of Europe}}</ref>

The defineetion fae the North/South Co-operation (Implementation Bodies) Northren Ireland Order 1999 abuin wis uised in the [[1 Julie]] [[2005]] ''Second Periodical Report'' bi 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.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Regional or Minority languages|url=http://www.coe.int/T/E/Legal_Affairs/Local_and_regional_Democracy/Regional_or_Minority_languages/2_Monitoring/2.2_States_Reports/UK_report2.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071129193507/http://www.coe.int/T/E/Legal_Affairs/Local_and_regional_Democracy/Regional_or_Minority_languages/2_Monitoring/2.2_States_Reports/UK_report2.pdf|archive-date=2007-11-29|access-date=2023-07-21|website=Council of Europe}}</ref>

===Guid Friday Agreement===
[[File:Boord o Ulster-Scotch.jpg|thumb|The logo o the Boord o Ulster Scots]]

The 1998 [[Guid Friday Agreement]] awns Ulster Scots as ''"part of the cultural wealth of the island of Ireland"'', an established the [[Ulster-Scots Agency]] (Tha Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch) an aw. The Northren Ireland Asssemblie, stelt bi the Guid Friday Agreement, gies Ulster Scots speakers information in thair awn leid.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/io/leaflets/YourAssemblyLeaflet_UlsterScots.htm |title=Northren Ireland Assemblie Wabsteid |access-date=2011-03-23 |archive-date=2011-04-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424091147/http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/io/leaflets/YourAssemblyLeaflet_UlsterScots.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===European Chairter for Regional and Minoritie Leids===
The declaration made bi the Unitit Kinrick Govrenment adae wi the [[European Chairter for Regional an Minoritie Leids]] is as follaes:

<blockquote>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 <u>a</u> regional or minority <u>language</u> for the purposes of Part II of the Charter.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/ListeDeclarations.asp?NT=148&CV=1&NA=&PO=999&CN=999&VL=1&CM=9&CL=ENG |title=Archived copy |access-date=2006-12-19 |archive-date=2011-07-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709023931/http://conventions.coe.int/Treaty/Commun/ListeDeclarations.asp?NT=148&CV=1&NA=&PO=999&CN=999&VL=1&CM=9&CL=ENG |url-status=dead }}</ref></blockquote>

==Teachin the Ulster Scots leid==
The Institute o Ulster Scots Studies wis established in 2001 bi the Ulster Varsity.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/ulsterscots/intro.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-03-23 |archive-date=2011-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110524052224/http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/ulsterscots/intro.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[BBC Northren Ireland]] hae a section on thair wabsteid on learnin Ulster Scots, an the Boord o Ulster Scots hae makkit a few buiks in Ulster Scots.

==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.
:I want hom tha nite tae me ma
:an shea sae up da da

[[Image:Plaque poetry Writers Square Belfast Robert Huddlestone.jpg|thumb|Poetry bi Robert Huddlestone (1814-1887) inscribed in a causey stane in Writers' Square, Belfast]]

==References==
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==See forby==
*[[Ulster-Scots fowk]]
*[[Ulster Scots Agency]]
*[[Depairtment o Cultur Airts an Leisur|Depairtment o Cultur Airts an Leisur (''Männystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom'' in Ulstèr-Scotch)]]

==Fremmit airtins==
*[http://www.ulsterscotsagency.com The Ulster-Scots Agency]
* [http://www.scots-online.org/airticles/EagleFalconer2004.pdf Tha Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch: ''An English Name for a Scots Organization?'' (PDF)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709231107/http://www.scots-online.org/airticles/EagleFalconer2004.pdf |date=2010-07-09 }}
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/ulsterscots/ BBC wabsteid anent the Ulster Scots leid]

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