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The Ulster Scots (Ulster-Scots: Ulstèr-Scotch; Irish: Albanaigh Uladh), also called Ulster Scots people (Ulstèr-Scotch fowk) or, in North America, Scotch-Irish (Scotch-Airisch) or Scots-Irish, are an ethnic group in Ireland who share a common history, culture, and ancestry.
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Ulster Scots or Ulster-Scots (Ulstèr-Scotch, Irish: Albainis Uladh), also known as Ulster Scotch and Ullans, is the dialect of Scots spoken in parts of Ulster, being almost exclusively spoken in parts of Northern Ireland and County Donegal.
The Scots language came to Ulster with the Scottish settlers of the Plantation in the early seventeenth century. Its presence was sustained and reinforced by later migrations and by the strong social and economic ties across the narrow North Channel. Ulster-Scots (or ‘Ullans’ or even the ‘Braid Scotch’) is a variant of Scots, the ...
Native names: Scots Leid / Lallans [skɔts leid; lo̜ːlən (d)z/ˈlɑːlənz;] Language family: Indo-European, Germanic, West Germanic, Anglo-Frisian, Anglic, Scots. Number of speakers: c. 1.5 million. Spoken in: Scotland and Northern Ireland. First written: 11th century. Writing system: Latin alphabets.
Based on The Scotch-Irish Dialect Boundaries in Ulster (1972) by R. J. Gregg. Ulster Scots, sometimes called Ullans, is a dialect of Scots spoken in some of the northern parts of Ireland, across Ulster. It is closely related to the English language .
