Ulster Scots leid

Ulster Scots, kent as Ulstèr-Scotch an Ullans an aw, is the byleid o the Scots leid spak in Ulster (Norlin Airlan an tha Republic o Airlan). It is maistly spak bi the Ulster-Scots fowk awtho mony wirds, lik glaikit an wee, haes been borraed intae the ilkaday speak o ither fowks. Policies at forder Erse an Ulster-Scots is tae be promuived in Norlin Airlan syne 2020. The leid can be pairtit intae three kynds: Westren Ulster Scots in Coonties Derry an Dunnygal, Central Ulster Scots in Coontie Antrim, an Eastren Ulster Scots in Coontie Doun an The Ards.

A sign in baith Inglis an Scots in Ballyhalbert, Coonty Doun

Speaker population an spreid

Estimates o the amoont o Ulster Scots speakers cheenge; frae a weel-hertit estimate o aboot 100,000 tae a laich ane o aboot 30,000 in the Northren Ireland Life and Times leuk o 1999. Loyalists is muckle mair likely tae speak it nor naitionalists^{[citation needit]}.

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

A sign for the Männystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom o Northren Ireland .

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.

The defineetion frae 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.

Guid Friday Agreement

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 estaiblished 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 informâtion in thair ain leid.

European Chairter for Regional and Minoritie Leids

The declarâtion made bi the Unitit Kinrick Govrenment adae wi the European Chairter for Regional an Minoritie Leids is as follaes:

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 a regional or minority language for the purposes of Part II of the Charter.

Teachin the Ulster Scots leid

The Institute o Ulster Scots Studies wis estaiblished in 2001 bi the Ulster Varsity.

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

Poetry bi Robert Huddlestone (1814-1887) inscribed in a causey stane in Writers' Square, Belfast

See an aw

• Ulster-Scots fowk
• Ulster Scots Agency
• Depairtment o Cultur Airts an Leisur (Männystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom in Ulster Scots)

Fremmit airtins

• The Ulster-Scots Agency
• Tha Boord o Ulstèr-Scotch: An English Name for a Scots Organization? (PDF) Archived 2010-07-09 at the Wayback Machine
• BBC wabsteid aboot the Ulster Scots leid