Scotes (lingua)

Scotes es un lingua germanica relatada a engles, parlada en la paises basa ("Lowlands" o "Lawlands") de Scotland. Lo es ance nomida "Lowland Scots" o "lallans". Un varia parlada en Er Norde es nomida "Ulster Scots" o "ullans". La cuantia de parlores no es clar, car la popla de Scotland no distingui clar entre scotes e la dialeto de engles ance parlada ala. Scotes es clar distinguida de gailica, la lingua celta de la isolas e paises alta ("Highlands") de Scotland, relatada a eres.

Esemplos de Scotes:

Our Faither in heiven,
be hallowt thy name ;
thy Kíngdom come;
thy will be dune
on the yird, as in heiven.
Gíe us our breid for this incomin day;
forgíe us the wrangs we hae wrocht,
as we hae forgíen the wrangs we hae dree’d;
an sey-us-na sairlie, but sauf us
frae the Ill Ane:
for the Kíngdom, the pouer an the glorie ar thine
for ivver an aye. Amen.
— La Nosa Padre, de la pajeria de la Eglesa de Scotland

They took nae pains their speech to balance,
Or rules to gie;
But spak their thoughts in plain, braid lallans,
Like you or me.
— Robert Burns en Epistle To William Simson

"What tongue does your auld bookie speak?"
He'll spier; an' I, his mou to steik:
"No bein' fit to write in Greek,
I wrote in Lallan,
Dear to my heart as the peat reek,
Auld as Tantallon.
— Robert Louis Stevenson en The Maker to Posterity

Category:Linguas germanica
Category:Linguas de Rena Unida