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The
Ulster Scots Agency promotes the study, conservation, development
and use of Ulster Scots |
Under
the section Rights, Safeguards and Equality of Opportunity, the Good Friday
Agreement commits the two governments and the Northern Ireland Assembly
to show "respect, understanding and tolerance" to Ulster Scots.
Ulster Scots, also known as Ullans, is said to be spoken by an estimated
100,000 people in Northern Ireland and East Donegal. (See 'Establishing
the Demand for Services and Activities in the Ulster-Scots Language' -
Dunn, Morgan & Dawson, 2002). Although the academic jury is still
undecided as to whether Ulster Scots is a language or a dialect, the European
Bureau for Lesser Used Languages has always recognised Ulster Scots as
one of the 'lesser used' languages in Europe. Also the UK Government recognised
Scots and Ulster Scots as falling under Part 11 of the European Charter
for Regional or Minority Languages which it ratified in 2001.
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| Ulster
Scots is a regional variant of Scots, which, like English, traces its origins
to Anglo-Saxon. Influenced by the linguistic conditions prevalent in Northern
Britain during the 8th century, Anglo-Saxon developed into what is now referred
to as Scots which for a long time was the language of the royal court in
Scotland. In Southern Britain Anglo-Saxon displaced rival dialects and eventually
became the basis of the English tongue spoken in the United Kingdom today. |
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