Ulster Scots dialect - Wikipedia
Some definitions of Ulster Scots may also include Standard English spoken with an Ulster Scots accent. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] This is a situation like that of Lowland Scots and Scottish Standard English [ 16 ] with words pronounced using the Ulster Scots …
Ulster English - Wikipedia
Ulster English, [1] also called Northern Hiberno-English or Northern Irish English, is the variety of English spoken mostly around the Irish province of Ulster and throughout Northern Ireland.The dialect has been influenced by the local Ulster dialect of the Scots language, brought over by Scottish settlers during the Plantation of Ulster and subsequent settlements throughout the …
Spelling guide to Ulster-Scots vowel sounds
Shared English/Ulster-Scots words with an ‘oa’ spelling such as ‘road’, ‘boat’, ‘goat’, ‘coat’ etc, are pronounced locally [row-ad], [bow-at], [go-at], [co-at] in Ulster-Scots. In these situations, some writers have used an accent to indicate a vowel which is pronounced distinctly and separately from the adjacent vowel.
Where accents appear on vowels in Ulster-Scots, they indicate features of pronunciation and can be omitted without any change to spelling (see Spelling and Pronunciation Guide). There are only three recommended for standard use:
Regional accents of English - Wikipedia
The Ulster accent has two main sub accents, namely Mid Ulster English and Ulster Scots. The language is spoken throughout the nine counties of Ulster and in some northern areas of bordering counties such as Louth and Leitrim .
Ulster Scots and Appalachian English - Dialect Blog
Jun 15, 2011 · But unlike the accents of contemporary Northern Ireland, which are clearly influenced by Scots and Scottish English, Appalachian English isn’t as patently “Scottish”-sounding. Why is this? I see two possible answers to this question.
A Test for Ulster-Scots
From outside, all Ulster speech can sound very Scottish, particularly the 'accent' in Antrim, Down, Londonderry and Donegal. Ulster-Scots, however, is more than Ulster dialect. It is a living version of the Lowland Scots language which has recognition as …
Dictionary of Ulster-Scots: Ulster-Scots Academy
This sample includes pre-edited excerpted historical examples (as of October 2014) from key texts up to circa 1810, only for English words beginning with the letter ‘A’. The Academy’s full working dictionary contains the equivalent excerptions for the entire alphabet.
Dialects and Pronunciation - Scots Online
Urban Scots refers to the dialects of Scots spoken in and around towns and cities especially Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Those dialects were subjected to dialect levelling towards Standard (Scottish) English earliest.
Exploring Ulster Scots: A Journey Through Language and Culture”
May 6, 2024 · While broad Ulster-Scots is only spoken in the more rural communities, everyone in Northern Ireland uses Ulster-Scots words and phrases in their everyday speech. Ulster-Scots is basically the same as West Central Scots (the language of Rabbie Burns), a Germanic tongue of common origin with English.