Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh
An introduction to the tongues, peoples and events that shaped the earliest history of the Scots language.
Credits:
Production/Animation: Laura Bowles
Script: The FITS team (Rhona Alcorn, Vasilis Karaiskos, Joanna Kopaczyk, Bettelou Los, Warren Maguire, Benjamin Molineaux)
Voiceovers: Rhona Alcorn (Scottish English) and Hamish MacDonald (Scots)
Scots Translation: Derrick McClure
Music: “Pentland Hills” by James Oswald (in arrangements by Alistair Hardie and David Johnson) performed by Alistair Hardie. .
"Gaelic speakers were much more numerous North of the River Forth" – What about areas like Dumfries and Galloway in South-West were there was dense usage of Gaelic? Didn't they speak a distinct dialect called Galwegian Gaelic? Gaelic was once the dominant language of Scotland.
Beautifully made and so informative and interesting ?
Fantastic!