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What (who) is Lallans - definition
TERM THAT WAS TRADITIONALLY USED TO REFER TO THE SCOTS LANGUAGE AS A WHOLE
Synthetic Scots; Lallands
Lallans
['lal?nz]
¦ noun a distinctive Scottish literary form of English, based on standard older Scots.
Origin
C18: Scots var. of Lowlands, with ref. to a central Lowlands dialect
Lallans
Lallans (;OED a variant of the Modern Scots word lawlands SND: Lawland meaning the lowlands of Scotland), is a term that was traditionally used to refer to the Scots language as a whole. However, more recent interpretations assume it refers to the dialects of south and central Scotland, while Doric, a term once used to refer to Scots dialects in general, is now generally seen to refer to the Mid Northern Scots dialects spoken in the north-east of Scotland.
Lallans (magazine)
SCOTS LANGUAGE MAGAZINE
Lallans is a periodical subscription magazine in the Scots Language established by the Scots Language Society in 1973 and dedicated to the promotion and revived use of the language in literature and letters. The magazine publishes original prose and poetry, Scots translations, reviews of other books and materials also published in Scots, as well as articles, commentary and debate with relevance to the language.
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Lallans
Lallans (; a variant of the Modern Scots word lawlands [ˈlo̜ːlən(d)z, ˈlɑːlənz] meaning the lowlands of Scotland), is a term that was traditionally used to refer to the Scots language as a whole. However, more recent interpretations assume it refers to the dialects of south and central Scotland, while Doric, a term once used to refer to Scots dialects in general, is now generally seen to refer to the Mid Northern Scots dialects spoken in the north-east of Scotland.
