Phonological history of Scots

Main article: History of the Scots language
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This is a presentation of the phonological history of the Scots language.

Scots has its origins in Old English (OE) via early Northern Middle English;[1] though loanwords from Old Norse[2] and Romance sources are common, especially from ecclesiastical and legal Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle French borrowings.[3] Trade and immigration led to some borrowings from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch.[4] Some vocabulary has been borrowed from Scotland's other language, Scottish Gaelic.[5]

  1. ^ Macafee, Caroline; Aitken, A. J. (2002). "A History of Scots to 1700 in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue vol. XII, xxix-clvii. Online". Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  2. ^ A History of Scots to 1700, pp. lxii
  3. ^ A History of Scots to 1700, pp. lxiii-lxv
  4. ^ A History of Scots to 1700, pp. lxiii
  5. ^ A History of Scots to 1700, pp. lxi