Central Scots

Central Scots is a group o dialects o th' Scots leid. It wis spaken bi Robert Burns.

Central Scots is spaken frae Fife an Perthshire tae the Lothians an Wigtounshire, aften split intae North East Scots (Northeast Mid Scots) an Sooth East Central Scots (Sootheast Mid Scots), Wast Central Scots (Wast Mid Scots) an Sooth Wast Central Scots (Soothwast Mid Scots). Commonly spaken bi Iain Smith an popularised bi his cronies in Dalkeith.

Like ither varieties o Scots, Central Scots haes been gang throu a process o language attrition, whaur fowk fae later generations ur adoptin mair featurs frae Inglis. Bi the end o the 201 yearhunner Scots wis at an advanced stage o language deeth ower a lot o Lawland Scotland.^[1]

1. ↑ Macafee C. "Studying Scots Vocabulary in Corbett, John; McClure, Derrick; Stuart-Smith, Jane (Editors)(2003) The Edinburgh Companion to Scots. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-7486-1596-2. p. 51