Scottish English

The term Scottish English standard English language is referred to, as it is used in Scotland as an official language and education. This is clearly of Scottish Gaelic ( the Celtic language of the Highlands and the Islands), but also to delineate from the Scottish- English dialect Scots.

Scottish English is different in the written form in just a few words of the language of England. Since there is a written language, dialect forms occur hardly. Typical Scottish is in this academic language level, for example:

  • " Outwith " as the opposite of " within" ( English distinguishes " inside" and " within", but only "outside " as the opposite of the two)
  • "Proven " next to a "Proved " as past participle of " prove " (to be found also in American English)
  • " Amn't I? 'As Question- day; English has "are not I? " American English " Is not I? "
  • "Wee " instead of " little", for example, in "a wee bit more" or " Wee Free Men"

In the debate, Scottish English of Received Pronunciation (RP, the standardized pronunciation of England ) by the following features demarcates which also occur in northern England and in other varieties of English in part:

  • Between and is distinguished; the latter is aspirated. This has Scottish English consonants in a phoneme more than RP. Minimal pairs: Wales / whales, wear / where. Also in the north of England and parts of America.
  • Between / u / and / u ː / is not distinguished. This has Scottish English with the vowels a phoneme less than RP. So are "pull " and " pool" homophones, and are about as pronounced as RP " pull".
  • is still spoken there, where it is written. So Scottish English is " rhotic ", as well as American English, but postvokalisches looks even more prominent than in America in Scotland, as it is often realized as alveolar tongue tip r.
  • Scottish English still has the long vowels / o ː / and / e ː /, which were already diphthongisiert in English in Tudor times. So " boat" and " bait" are about as spoken as German " boat " and "Beet ".

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Unlike dialect forms of the variants of the Scottish English are in international use - such as in lectures and scientific publications - as perfectly acceptable.

  • English Variant
  • English language and literature
  • Culture ( Scotland)
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