Early Scots

Early Scots
Inglis
Region	Scottish Lowlands
Era	Developed into Middle Scots by the late 15th century
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic Early Scots
Early forms	Northumbrian Old English Early Middle English
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
One interpretation of the linguistic divide in 1400, here based on place-name evidence.   Scottish Gaelic   Middle English/Early Scots   Norn

Early Scots was the emerging literary language of the Early Middle English-speaking parts of Scotland in the period before 1450. The northern forms of Middle English descended from Northumbrian Old English. During this period, speakers referred to the language as "English" (Inglis, Ynglis, and variants).

Early examples such as Barbour’s The Brus and Wyntoun’s Chronicle are better explained as part of Northern Middle English than as isolated forerunners of later Scots, a name first used to describe the language later in the Middle Scots period.