Natural landmarks · Scottish Highlands
Scots Language Centre
Scots Language Centre in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Scots Language Centre is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Scots Language Centre (Scots: Centre for the Scots Leid) is an organisation that promotes the use of the Scots language. The director of the Scots Language Centre is Dr Michael Dempster. It receives funding from the Scottish Government.
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Background
History
The organisation was founded in 1993 as the Scots Language Resource Centre. In 1996, the centre held a "Spellin Collogue" in an attempt to reform Scots orthography, but was ultimately unsuccessful. In preparation for a new question on the census asking whether residents could understand Scots, the organisation launched a website with example of the language to allow respondents to determine if they could. A digital map of Scotland with Scots place names was published by the Centre in 2019. During 2020, the Centre researched Scots exonyms for European settlements and countries and compiled a map based on this information the following year. In November 2021, the Centre produced a Scots…
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- Coordinates
- 56.3955, -3.4368
- Address
- Perth, PH1 5QN
- Established
- 1994
Sources
- wikidata: Q13195194 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Scots Language Centre (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Scots Language Centre?
- Scots Language Centre is in Scottish Highlands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.3955°, -3.4368°.
- When was Scots Language Centre built?
- Scots Language Centre dates to 1994.