Northren Scots

Northren Scots refers tae the dialects o Modren Scots tradeetionally spoken in eastren pairts o the north o Scotland.

The dialect is generally dividit intae:^[1][2]

• North Northren spoken in Caithness, Easter Ross an the Black Isle.
• Mid Northren, popularly kent as the Doric, spoken in Aiberdeenshire, Banff an Buchan, Moray an the Nairn aurie.
• Sooth Northren spoken in East Angus an the Mearns.

Northren Scots, lik Insular Scots, is amang the maist conservative Scots byleids as weel as haein lang-term contack wi ither leids.^[3]

1. ↑ "SND Introduction - Dialect Districts". Dsl.ac.uk. Archived frae the original on 1 Juin 2013. Retrieved 21 Mey 2009.
2. ↑ Millar, Robert McColl (2007). Northern and insular Scots. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-2996-1. OCLC 100562381.
3. ↑ Millar, Robert McColl (2007). Northern and insular Scots. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-7486-2996-1. OCLC 100562381.