Minding Our Language - Ulster-Scots (Part 1)

[@Dharmanarchist]

I spent 3 days in Belfast a couple of years ago and had a great visit. The people were very friendly and I found them to be very interested in talking to me because I'm American. I have to admit that on many, many occasions I had to ask them to slow down because I was having trouble following what they were saying. Growing up in the northern end of Appalachia, I did here some faint echos in terms of cadence and accent.

[@infobeam1902]

fu merican anchor! na oj glad you had fun.

[@raleighburner1589]

Your British not irish

[@Majestadon]

@@raleighburner1589 you're

[@CinCee-]

@@raleighburner1589 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@johndoe-ss9bz]

@@raleighburner1589 ::The Irish that came to Scotland 300 years ago do not call themselves "Irish-Scots". The Irish that went to England 500 years ago do not call themselves Irish/English. It's time to drop the Scotch/Irish after one generation, and accept the country of your birth as your homeland. or Go Back to Scotland.

[@Cartamandua]

I'm from Northumberland and I can remember how the older people spoke when I was a bairn. Definately loads of 'Scottish words' but with a different accent.

[@tommothedog]

Bairn is very close to the scandinavian which may be the source of many root words for scotts and irish as well. While england saw its own distinct invasions from scandinavia and the north germanic ('fresian'?) Coast from where much of the germanic of englishness comes from. Meanwhile the north of the british isles saw its own distinct invasion from germanic speaking tribes from scandinavia from which they get a distinct british language.

[@yvonnefarrell1029]

Barn being the Swedish word for child! Lovely.

[@DarrenRFC]

Susan we are the same blood only modern borders seperate us. We are one blood with the people of northurmbeland and much of northern england.

[@Cartamandua]

@@DarrenRFC That is very true.

[@brother1ray]

It's your language too..............Geordies talk about "hame", "toon" and "who ye ken". Same roots...........and then there's the glorious "Snows that melt the soonest" folk song, well kent and loved by us aw' 😉

[@rileyhinds8616]

Here in America, many people who have Scotch-Irish ancestry, have no idea where their ancestors came from, and the struggles they went through. I had no idea. After doing my own family history, I have found out that my own ancestors were Scotch-Irish. Now, I try to share as much information as I can with my family about our Scotch-Irish ancestry. The Scotch-Irish have done so much for individual liberty for ALL. That is really something to be proud of!

[@christinedorman3383]

+Riley Hinds I applaud your family and your comment. I cannot help, however, reacting to one thing: your use of the phrase "Scotch-Irish." The correct phrase is "Scots-Irish." As my grandfather, who was from Port Glasgow, Scotland used to say,"People are Scots; scotch is a whiskey." Obviously, you are proud of your Scottish heritage so please call yourself a Scot.

[@LordDirus007]

Yeah I found out I have 50% Scots-Irish. My family has been in the US on average 300 years. Ross, Jamieson, Evans etc

[@elusiverenaulds4006]

Yes and the elite hate them for this, the reason they are negatively stereotyped as hillbilly’s and inbreds in the media so much.

[@gadpivs]

@@christinedorman3383 "The term Scotch-Irish is used primarily in the United States,[10] with people in Great Britain or Ireland who are of a similar ancestry identifying as Ulster Scots people. The term is first known to have been used for Scottish Catholics in Ireland. In a letter of April 14, 1573, in reference to descendants of "gallowglass" mercenaries from Scotland who had settled in Ireland, Elizabeth I of England wrote: We are given to understand that a nobleman named Sorley Boy MacDonnell and others, who be of the Scotch-Irish race ...[13]"

[@baphomet66and6]

@@christinedorman3383 he's an American of Scots /Irish ancestry /heritage. And Scotch is Whisky. Not Whiskey.

[@dukadarodear2176]

The new Irish passport (page 28) has a short quotation from a poem by the Ulster Scots poet James Orr; "The hedge-hauntin blackbird, on ae fit whyles restin wad fain heat the tither in storm-ruffled wing" I don't understand every word but the verse as a whole has great poetic energy for me. I recently downloaded a translation of hundreds of Scots to English words. I have heard man of these Scots/Irish words used all over Ireland but mostly in Ulster of course.

[@buzzer1961]

The hedge-hauntin blackbird, on one foot whilst resting, would occasionally heat the other one in storm-ruffled wing, is how I, born in Galashiels in the Scottish Borders, would translate that to English ;)

[@cigh7445]

Man, I'm from Limerick with no knowledge of Scots and I can translate that for you. The hedge hauntin' blackbird On one foot while resting Would often heat the other In storm ruffled wing

[@jondonnelly3]

I can understand the words, but no idea what the poem is about. Any ideas?

[@buzzer1961]

@@jondonnelly3 Basically, the author is saying that when it was very windy, the Blackbird would first stand on one leg for a while, then the other, whilst heating the other leg, against it's body

[@kieransavage3835]

Clabber to the knee was an expression to depict someone who appeared to have walked through a mucky patch of ground.

[@dacypher22]

Holy crap! My dad used to say some of the things that were said at 1:21. I thought he had just made them up, even if he swore his family said them. Now I know where they came from!

[@bobdole5350]

There's a lot of Ulster Scots in the US! Mainly east coast / deep south regions.

[@dacypher22]

@@bobdole5350 Very interesting. His family was from the deep south. He said they blended a lot of these sayings into an otherwise deep southern accent.

[@bobdole5350]

@@dacypher22 Yeah a lot of Dixie colonials had Irish / Irish Scots heritage themselves. It's quite strange, but where I come from, some people identify as British, and some Irish, and we both have folk music that is shared by us, and the Southern States (same tunes but with different lyrics!

[@brucecollins4729]

@@bobdole5350 your forgettin the earlier scots who have been in the carolinas etc since the 1500s. many words and phrases in the south would have come from the scots just as the scots took them to ulster. a lot of your fiddle tunes are scottish in origins. i.e miss mcleods reel / high hop ladies in amerikay. the de,l amang the taylors/ the devils dream in amerikay. henry lee/soldiers joy/ cumberland gap/ and many more have their roots in scotland. many irish songs are actually scottish as are 100s of irish fiddle tunes. boxandfiddlearchive.weebly.com/scottish-fiddle-playing-and-its-irish-connections although it should read the other way. the fiddles been in scotland since the 16th century. the irishman that wrote this was 75 when he wrote this in 1995. the ruirdi person he mentions was actually scottish. you will also see where he writes one irish fiddler had a collection of 400 scottish fiddle tunes. so, you will here irish fiddlers play these tunes under a different title. so many irish fiddle tunes you hear are most likely scottish.

[@bobdole5350]

@@brucecollins4729 very true! I am an Ulster-Scot myself (Scotch-Irish if your American), so I fortunately have the best of both worlds, Scottish and Irish.. although I would be very partial to the banjo and some woodwind too. I find it very interesting how America has developed a true mix of culture in places, it's a pity the rest can't follow suit!

[@mezzuna]

As an Irish Republican, I found this very interesting and informative. Would like to see more pride being taken across Ultster in all her mother tongues

[@emersonsfamily9724]

mezzuna pity all of ulster isn’t british not just 6 county’s

[@emersonsfamily9724]

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[@emersonsfamily9724]

Árón isreal And Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

[@AAA-fh5kd]

wits wrang wi speaking Ullans, Scots, Gaelic and English all?.... why not?

[@daithio.7378]

mezzuna If your an Irish republican I'm your fucking dad they shouldn't be here it's as simple as that Tiocfaidh ár lá ,

[@wingmanhoy3999]

O hEachaidh Hoy, Haughey, Hoey, Tuatha De Danann, Red Branch, The Darini, Red God, and Galloway, Dal Fiatach Dynasty, 1st high kings of Ulster, and Hoy Island Haey Old Norse, East Iceland, I have alot of proud heritage and culture from here, looking forward to visiting at some point, very much enjoyed, thank you, all the very best, truly amazing thinking of where we come from and today able to trace my ancestry, truly amazing to me.

[@danekeeper1]

Greetings from California...I enjoy your presentation and find it most interesting, I must admit that some of the ...no.....most of the inferences and humor examine my thinning top knot. Still this man on the street history is fun, entertaining and presented very well. thanks for making it...

[@ulsterman7555]

Gwan ya buck eejit ye. A great wee programme well done Tim, ya boy ye.

[@michaelwilson4621]

In my early 50s. Just discovering the language - "Scots", that my grandmother spoke to me as a small boy in Canada. My grandmother was from Edinborough. My "uncle' Bill, whom I visited with my father every saturday morning until his death in 1977, was revealed to me as an adult to be my grandfather. Liam "Bill" Shaw was born near Slemish, in 1899. I always remember my being mesmerized listening to him speak with his funny talk, that sounded sort of like English, but definitely something else as well.. His "funny" talk I now realize was Ulster-Scots. So excited about this revelation now in my life. so saddened that this is not something I received earlier to pass on to my children.

[@scotsexile1]

Edinburgh not Edinborough please. Burgh is Scots. Borough is English.

[@ivandinsmore6217]

Where in England is Edinborough?

[@georgejob2156]

Edinburgh no Edinborough

[@georgejob2156]

Dunedin in New Zealand, Gaelic name

[@NorthSon]

It’s never been called Edinborough. Your Grandmother wouldn’t be happy with you calling it that 😂 Edinburgh please. It’s a phenomenal city that’s contributed massively to the world, it deserves respect.

[@geordieswhyfronts7654]

As a geordie am for the ulster scot, hard earned and never be lost!

[@irishsteve209]

Glens of Antrim, big majority catholic, strong highland Scot bloodlines and you can hear it in the talk they use everyday.

[@jsmcguireIII]

Languages are always weaponized. Its up to us to take them back and use them to unite us on higher levels. Conquering armies always first outlaw the native languages.

[@tiggergolah]

That's second. First, they confiscate all your guns. Unless you didn't have any to begin with, which would explain how they.....oh....never mind. ;)

[@paddymeboy]

I don't see the application of that here: nobody has ever outlawed Scots. They don't need to, as it is just English spoken in Scotland. The Scots abandoned and suppressed their own actual native tongue, Gaelic.

[@paddymeboy]

@@tiggergolah Again, what's the application of that here? Scotland was never actually conquered anyway so these comments are irrelevant. On the other hand they did conquer and colonise parts of Ireland.

[@Finderskeepers.]

@@paddymeboy Gaelic was banned, in Scotland and Ireland in 1616. Scotland was conquered and an act of union forced on both countries subjugating both countries to the English monarch

[@cherri2469]

@@paddymeboy No, Scotlands native tongue is Scots, a Brythonic/Germanic language. geals aren’t native to the British Isles. They were raiders from Spain, on one occasion led by Mil Espaine with his followers the Milesians. They invaded and colonised parts of Ivernia (Ireland) and Scotland with more raids happening between the 6th and 12th centuries.

[@knockshinnoch1950]

For over 300 years Scots language, customs, history and traditions have been systematically suppressed by the ruling English elite. This has been mostly successful in grinding down Scots many of whom know little of their history as it was almost entirely absent from the School curriculum as was the Scots language which was actively discouraged and its use often led to punishment by teachers if spoken in class. It resulted in Scots subconsciously seeing themselves as "less than" and 2nd class citizens in their own land. The idea of "talking slang" or ""talking polite/talking posh" rages to this day with many a Scots mother knocking the edges off their own local dialect rather than embrace it. The rich and the aristocracy sent their weans to English public schools or exclusive Scots versions and returned with a brand new "bools in their mooth" RP English with just a hint of Scots remaining such as "wee dram". As a result of this and the drive by the middle classes to "get on" Scots became the language of the poorer classes and the poorly educated working classes It remained strong in the most rural areas. This concerted effort was successful in subjugating the Scots for the majority of the past 300 years. Scots With the exception of a few Burns texts it had no artistic or cultural merit and certainly no place in the official life of Scots institutions, education or the law. It became a spoken language and not a written one. It is only within the past 30 years that a serious state sponsored effort to restore Scots and Gaelic to their rightful place has been funded and supported . There are still many who resist and look down upon those who promote and speak the language.Luckily there is a rich arts scene which has seen an explosion of works written and performed in Scots- all helping to restore Scots. Personally I cannot wait until we have an Independent Scotland in Europe and we can rebrand Police Scotland as THE POLIS.

[@mrsrjlupin3650]

Bolox

[@swissnor]

Well they use to say the something about Afrikaans, that Afrikaans was not a language but a dialect of Dutch. And there still some dummies who say Afrikaans is only a dialect of Dutch to this day.

[@robwyyi]

swissnor I've seen kind of dialogue but with Portuguese. Between Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese of Iberia with folks from Canary Island also. Most time linguist simply state Brazil Portuguese grew from Portuguese of Europe. Meaning Brazilian Portuguese is junior to Portuguese of europe. Being junior would mean it being not a separate language. So how ever you like Afrikaans is Dutch.

[@robmcrob2091]

Yes and Afrikaans is more similar to Dutch than Scots is to English, for sure. I speak Dutch and Afrikaans is easy to understand, especially written.

[@bickybox]

Good to see the sinn fein man supports it. The Danes,Swedes and Norwegians all speak a similar language.

[@sarban1653]

The English and Lowland Scots too.

[@daithio.7378]

Sarban that's who their talking about 😁.

[@irishsteve209]

Yes true, Scots use many Norse words and Northern English too.

[@adhamhmacconchobhair7565]

Of course they support it! My family supports sinn féin, I dont really support anyone. But we support it because we know what it's like to have your language taking away from you. Language shouldn be cultural not political. I really hope the language is kept alive. Theres a similar situation in wexford and fingal with the yola & fingalian languages

[@tblairhug1]

heading to Tyrone this June-- so helpful!!!

[@jameshudson169]

14:52 what's this i heard about the chevy chase? nobody ever says nothing about it. i only hear hints.

[@johndaugherty4127]

This Kentucky boy understands! I was always told we were Irish, but never knew the "rest of the story" until the last few years. From Donnegal and my family sailed to North Carolina in the 1700's.

[@o-o2399]

your surname is literally the most Irish and the most common catholic name in Donegal.

[@o-o2399]

@Noah Pritchett maybe but that's a Irish surname not Scottish or English unless his family converted before moving to the US.

[@pengy4792]

So you are American.

[@fullthrottleinthemojave1138]

A Yiddish writer once stated that a language is a dialect with an army and a flotilla.

[@NOTJustANomad]

A lot of Skellige islanders here :D

[@nicholahenry539]

Well I’m off both heritage and my mum and dad where from Derry/Londonderry

[@baphomet66and6]

An interesting vid & perspective. Language, dialects et al are so interesting, part of our locational/cultural identity & such.. The dialects we use are ever evolving. As a native Doric speaker born, brought up & living in Aberdeenshire, you have to accept that my dialect of Scots, is not same one that was used a century ago., caused by influxes of people, influences from elsewhere. But we still use loan words from other parts of Scotland. As I said..... interesting. Use it or lose it is another pertinent phrase.

[@tomgreene6579]

Did Ulster Scots arrive around the time of the lowland clearances.....any info out there?

[@buzzer1961]

Ulster Scots arrived before that, when James I and IV took the English throne, then decided to clear out his troublesome subjects in the Scottish Borders, utilising the former Reiver chiefs, Scott of Buccleuch, and Kerr of Cessford, probably with other lesser Lairds, to round up their former minions, and have them transported to Ulster. Many former Reivers were also conscripted into armies fighting in the Lowland Countries in Europe, and were noted as the finest light horsemen in the armies.

[@l.jboylan6704]

Scots is a language Ulster-Scots is a dialect of Scots

[@RhysBrown-w6j]

No it isn’t it’s a language

[@Jimmy_Cooper]

I’m Scottish , I speak what’s regarded as Scots and it isn’t a language , it’s a dialect of English

[@hamilax156]

Born in England, to an Irish English mother, and a Ulster Scot from Donegal, then adopted by Scots.

[@rogerdavies8586]

As I said on another site there is no scientific way to distinguish a language from a dialect. A language is a dialect with an army, a navy and an air force. My ex-husband grew up speaking Serbo-Croat in Yugoslavia. Now he calls it Croatian because Croatia is its own country. Gavin Douglas translated classical literature into the Scots of Scotland in about 1500. William Dunbar wrote Chaucerian poetry in Scots in the same time. The Spanish ambassador Pedro de Ayala at that time wrote that it was as much like English as Aragonese was like Castilian. Castilian is now called Spanish and Aragonese is an endangered language. What on earth made anyone think Scots was only a dialect? It was the union with England of course! A long and painful experience has shown men that when people disparage how other people speak, it is based on ignorance. I don't see why Ulster Scots should not be seen as its own language. Afrikaans is seen as a language although Winston Churchill was still calling it Dutch in 'My Early Life'. Cornish and Breton are descended from Old Welsh but are seen as different languages. Marianne borrowing Roger's computer.

[@kieransavage3835]

He’s as lazy as shough water,referring to very slow flowing water.

[@amonster8mymother]

Ach yed better tech teh wee'ens.

[@Patrick_B687-3]

There is so much history of GB, no one can ever learn it all. Fascinating stuff and I know I've got some Scotch blood running through me. Being the heratic that I am, I have a great preference for Irish whiskey. Damn Peat smoked malt!

[@Patrick_B687-3]

Well, which one? Ive tried the White Labeled one, and not crazy about it. Hopefully, they make a better one. Thanks for the reply mate! 👍🏻

[@scottymacg28]

You can't have scotch blood mate! You'd die of alcohol poisoning, you can have Scottish blood maybe!!!!!!

[@JM-gu3tx]

Scots also make that. Scotland is world famous for its whiskey. Scots also invented the modern world and there is a book about it.

[@LDcorx]

If you go up Inverness you'll hear "Scottish" people talking and they sound northern Irish, I always thought that the mix of Irish immigrants made up most of the glasgwegian accent but looks like it's always been there and there not actually immigrants in the first place, the Scottish Irish thing is actually so confusing tbh, who even was the picts and who even are the Scottish 😂

[@gazlink1]

The Picts were a P-Celtic speaking group, so like Welsh or Cymbric (spoken in much of northern England), or the Britons of Ystrad Clud (modern day Strathclyde), the Old North. Just one of the groups that went into modern Scottish, but got taken over culturally by Q-Celtic language i.e. Gaelic from Ireland.. then Northumbrian/Scots etc.

[@lewistaylor2858]

the Highland accent does not sound Irish...

[@Atomic568]

Ballymena people speak ulster Scott’s naturally.

[@Grey_M0user]

Please tell me what music played in the beginning & in the ending of this video? I can't sleep by two days to seeking it!

[@glennrivington6763]

The Ulster Scot and Scottish ways of speaking remind me of how country people of North and South Carolina speak.

[@doclittlejohn3261]

I’m from South Carolina and when I went to Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 I could understand everything, while my English friends struggled lol 😂

[@bloodaxe5028]

Scots developed from a dialect of Old English or the Anglo-Saxon tongue .

[@GreatKhanMatt]

not thats scottish gaelic not scots

[@alanvt1]

What language would that be then?

[@AAA-fh5kd]

but it also has French, Gaelic etc in it as well

[@palepilgrim1174]

@Azzury Street True but the Celts were far from the original inhabitants of the islands. Celtic languages only came into the British Isles around 500 BC at the earliest, and guess what they were brought through invasion and conquest JUST like Germanic languages were slightly later.

[@palepilgrim1174]

@@AAA-fh5kd It has barely any Gaelic. Like 100 loanwords or something. That might sound like a lot to you, but it's really not, there's very very little Gaelic influence on Scots. It's overwhelmingly Germanic with a substantial Latin influence (from both Latin directly and via French), albeit ironically fairly less Latinized, thus more traditionally Germanic, than standard English is.

[@tomgreene1843]

How does one count in ulster Scots ??

[@honeybear200]

God bless scotland,ulster,and Appalachia!!!

[@Ganja123]

No way

[@tommothedog]

Nationalists are nationalists scot, irish or german. It is an exclusionary, ethno-centric position based upon idealism.

[@bigfoxgamingbroplays8802]

‘Tis another dialect of the Scots leid

[@ricksanchez525]

"people seem to like it" best accent.

[@jashall3804]

What about mad jack Hall?.

[@Craicfox161]

2:43 no way it’s the lady from BBC news

[@johnkelly879]

I have no issue with the Irish language or the Ulster Scotts and we need to understand the difference

[@stuartlawsonbeattie6200]

Scott is a name.

[@palepilgrim1174]

We also need to understand the difference between Celtic and Germanic. If you speak Celtic languages you are a Celtic person, if you speak Germanic languages you are a Germanic person. You are not Celtic nor is your language or culture just because it is a Germanic language dialect which exists in a region traditionally considered Celtic.

[@YTistooannoying]

@@palepilgrim1174 that don't make a lick of sense. I do not speak German yet I am of Germanic heritage (Dutch mostly) but my maternal family is English and something called, Scots Irish, which is a term here for Ulster Scot immigrants who migrated to the US. I speak American English yet I am Germanic, Scot, English. So, sorry you language and your heritage are not the same thing.

[@palepilgrim1174]

@@YTistooannoying German and Germanic mean 2 entirely different things, stop confusing them. Germans are just one of many modern Germanic ethnic groups. The English, Dutch and Scandinavians are also Germanic peoples. All Germans are Germanic but not all Germanic peoples are German, to put it simply. No Celtic and Germanic are ethnolinguistic terms so in this case they absolutely are the same thing and language is a crucial identifier of what your ethnolinguistic category is. Your heritage means nothing, it tells you what a small percentage of your ancestors were, it doesn't tell you what you are today, which is just English (American subgroup).

[@palepilgrim1174]

@@James-nw1oj Languages change and die out and merge and diverge all the time. You can't prevent the inevitable. Language will go down the natural route it goes down.

[@YangSing1]

why was french in scotland

[@richardrich1384]

YangSing1 Normans.

[@AAA-fh5kd]

catholic rebellions duh..

[@fromtheashes2555]

Because they were friends and allied! Unlike the English who were invaders!

[@tiggergolah]

"The part of me that hates paying for things.." Oh my gosh, now I know where I get that! My family has always taught me that its better to learn a skill and do it yourself "so you don't have to pay someone else to do what you can do for yourself!"

[@MossyKong]

It is a dialect.

[@gval900]

Did he distinguish Scotts from Gaelic? These go way back right? Is it discernible? The Angles imposed just as the Normans right?

[@alientoker7731]

Or Scots even

[@del5582]

1:22 As an American, I can only make out a word here or there. I can barely tell it's English.

[@MultiLittlebopeep]

That's because it's not English.

[@AAA-fh5kd]

as an american I have no trouble with any of it

[@ericsalles3393]

it comes from germanic .mak ken nacht loch lang gang ...robert the bruce spoke norman french wallace comes from walesa which is germanic for welsh they were welsh mercenaries .

[@TheXitone]

+eric salles fuckin bollox where do get that??

[@St99785]

bollocks, i say

[@AAA-fh5kd]

its a fusion. there are gaelic words in it too

[@thomasmccauley414]

Wallace is a surname from the original inhabitants of Strath-clyde Britons. They spoke a Brythonic Celtic language related to cymric or in English-Welsh. There are still many Strath-clyde British surnames in southern Scotland. For example: Wallace, Campbell, Abernathy, Abercrombie, Carmichael etc. Strath-clyde briton got taken over by Gaels from Ulster in around 400 A. D. whose leader was Nial of the 9 hostages. One of Nails hostages was Patrick who later Christianized the wild Gaels. Under Nial ,Strath-clyde became a Gaelic speaking area, but the place-names retained the original p-celtic influence.

[@AAA-fh5kd]

@@thomasmccauley414 cheers for that sum up! ...as it turns out I'm a Wallace who went over to Ulster,,,,, as well as gael-celt, Pict-celt, brythonic celt, Gall-gael...and oan ;)

[@patriciajrs46]

As an American, I love the sound of you folk's language. I just can't understand most of what you say in English, and no part of what you actually say in your own language.

[@tomgreene2282]

Can someone count for me in Ulster Scots?

[@electricrussell]

I'm a native English speaker, but I would love to learn Ulster-Scots because of my heritage. But coming across courses to learn is proving difficult. Are there courses I can take in Ulster-Scots? Duolingo or Rosetta Stone don't seem to have any.

[@kieranwalker3953]

electricrussell you might have more luck if you broaden your learning to Scots more generally, unfortunately I don’t think the resources are there like they are for Irish (which are plenty and have been helpful to me in a similar pursuit), I hope someone can correct that though all languages are treasures

[@andyt6191]

It isn't "Ruth"well cross! The name Ruth pronounced Rooth! In Ruthwell its pronunciation think of rush as in bullrush ?? More Ru than Roo?

[@Guardabosque]

Kin ah cawl Southeron a languige if ah speyl I phonetically

[@cigh7445]

Ah dinnae ken mon. Ah supoose ya can. Dis lieks liek wrengly spelt Inglis, och it's relly Scots mon. An am maekin t up as ah goo. Ken?

[@rondarawson6236]

I love how they speak😁😁😁😁😁❤❤❤

[@alanthomas2064]

SEEMS TO HAVE FORGOT THE STRATHCLUD BRITONS! also lallanders /Angles never wore kilts or played bagpipes! indeed in 1746 after Culloden, there were celebrations in Edinburgh! Highlanders were never liked in the Lowlands!

[@palepilgrim1174]

They also considered themselves English/Saxons/Teutonic/Germanic and so on too... but don't let real history get in the way of national revisionism and Celtwashing, lmao. The Gaelic term for the Lowlands is also 'the Place of the Foreigner', and they referred to Lowlanders as 'goill' (foreigners/strangers/aliens), the same term they used for the Norse and Anglo-Saxons (which the Lowlanders were/are). These were totally distinct ethnic groups, in the same way the Walloons and Flemish of Belgium are very distinct ethnic groups sharing a Belgian political identity.

[@michaelhicks6699]

needs close captioning and translating inta anglish

[@patriciajrs46]

That Robert the Bruce monument looks like it says 1306- 1726 (or something). He could not have ruled over 400 years! Nobody lives that long.

[@alanvt1]

Yet again no mention of the Strathclub BRITONS!...AH! deBruys! Normans a pestilence on us all!

[@defariadefaria2328]

Eireland is a gaelic land and theyr language is the eire gaelic language, not the viking's language. The same is the English Language. It isn't eire language.

[@DavidHoodEdinburgh]

Love this - braw!

[@marierobertson8267]

Its gaaaelic not gaelic! Love th irish, im a quarter irish xx love ireland xxx

[@AAA-fh5kd]

Gah lic .its scottish. Gay lick is irish.

[@grahamandrewsharpe1941]

@@AAA-fh5kd the Irish language is known as Gaeilge in Irish.

[@AAA-fh5kd]

@@grahamandrewsharpe1941 It was known as GAELIC by "irish" (gaeilge) speaking Irish people through the 20th century. "IRISH" is not the "gaelic"< Gaeilge/Gahlig language. It's not true to say that GAELS call ALL Gaelic any thing other than GAELIC< in their respective branches. "IRISH" is a political construction. the langauge is GAELIC in English Gaeilge in "Gaeilge"

[@AAA-fh5kd]

@@grahamandrewsharpe1941 Wha the f ye think yer taak'n tae? Awa tae F! havers. F off!

[@iamjustsaying4787]

Yeah. For better or worse the research shows that conformity is a key component of unity.

[@dazpatreg]

Ara shtop hay sure that's puure shtones. I spake a bit of hiberno connaughtian mesel

[@douglasfell4199]

Old Scots is Brythonic and is older than the saxon invasion. You can also say it desends from the same route as Welsh and Cumbric. Old Scots takes this older language and incorporates English, norse, French etc.

[@jamesmurdoch9805]

Braw stuff Tim.

[@FXSTB-i]

Nae herm tae yees.. I'll be honest, as someone from just across the water (think 30 miles) listening to a lot of people really trying their hardest to use words that don't sound natural to them is awkward. It flows here without thought. The northern Irish accent is great just don't try too hard. For what it's worth anything north of Ballantrae and it's gone.

[@bolton987]

That’s in south Ayrshire why would you be speaking in northern Irish accent

[@molecatcher3383]

The Ruthwell Cross was made by Angles, not Saxons.

[@markirving249]

Also it is in the Brythonic (Cumbric, a bit like old Welsh) speaking Kingdom of Strathclyde. Not Part of Scotland till 1018AD.

[@letozabalmaty]

LOL that is actually English suppose to sound!!! truly germanic core and pronunciation

[@celticbastardson2599]

I grew up in a German neighborhood - It ain't German or Germanic pronunciation: It's the Anglo language with a Celtic accent.

[@letozabalmaty]

@@celticbastardson2599 lol dude, the first of all your neighborhood speaks modern High German language which undergone with a huge phonetical changes, and comparing to other germanic tongues German is too different and it can not be a standard of pronouncing or something. The second thing is - people how speak scots are descended from Anglian tribes which moved deep in north of Britain island, they spoke Northumbrian old English dialect and unlike modern English which based on Mercian dialects, Scots have not been affected by the Great Vowel shift that caused the change of phonetics so heavily as English did. Just google at least lol

[@tammycaraway8476]

My DNA is 99.6% western European. My mothers family immigrated to America from County cork Ireland. My fathers family immigrated from Scotland. I discovered recently that they were born in sterling castle.

[@brysonmacdougal7898]

Tammy Caraway - your DNA should be mostly Northern European if you're Scots/Irish. I've had mine checked by three separate DNA tests and am part of the Scotland's People study. Your DNA should show some Norwegian or Danish as well and a conciderable number of Scots show a small % of North African DNA (Moroccan/Berber/Amazigh). Google the "Celtic-Berber connection". 6% of my DNA is North African.

[@brysonmacdougal7898]

James O'Keeffe - Ancestry.com has the latest technology that allows both mitochondrial and Y - DNA to be tested (both maternal & paternal sides from everyone). Older technology could only check paternal DNA from males and maternal DNA from females.

[@jameswilson3991]

tammy you are a wee scots lassie be proud of your scots heritage linda wilson x been to stirling castle many times

[@deplorabled1695]

SNP wants to be independent of UK; where it has a devolved Parliament, is a noisy neighbour with great influence and enormous sympathy and fraternity.... and yet now wants to remain in a European Union where it will be a minnow, amongst a conglomerate of nations most of whom have nowt in common with them. Literally trading in a slightly banged up old motor for a shiny expensive wheelbarrow with a dodgy wheel being pushed by a dozen infighting blind folk.

[@martinderry6728]

.. is it MAMMARY GLAND or is it MEMORY GLAND ?? ...

[@SP-my5gb]

Interesting. Guess I’m Scots-Irish or some such.

[@skullman322]

Salmond the beast.

[@JmO-ee1bi]

As an American, Ulster-Scots and Scots sounds like someone trying to be funny and witty and to mock the Gaelic (particularly Scottish Gaelic) language in English with semi-gibberish lol.

[@19grand]

Ulster Scoots, ey. Highly politicised. Tooing and froing between Ireland and Scotland for thousands of years. Yet soo much division, sectarianism and violence. Second thoughts, this documentary has given me a headache. Irish Gaelic, Picts, Scots Gaelic, Scots, English, Anglos, French, Saxons...

[@billiecrouse8002]

you must learn welsh.

[@genann_1441]

I like how the Scottish people don't tear down their old homes and replace them with bland tin cans, which they are doing where I live now.

[@westbrit4714]

Tim McGarry is a professional comedian who plays a Sinn Fein character in a sit com , I have no idea about his own political views but I imagine real SF types would be hostile to the Ulster Language as they are to the people

[@wallacepearse]

Many of their heroes before the 20th century are Scots Irish like Henry Joy McCracken and John Mitchel though.

[@westbrit4714]

wallacepearse Do you think that your average SF voter realises that the United Irishmen were on the whole Prod's and other than Tone mostly Dissenters ( and Ulster-Scots) not even Anglicans?

[@rivkahsari]

Hi, Can you please spell this out a bit for those who are a bit thick/far away? What are the implications? I know about the United Irishmen as I have an ancestor (Presbyterian) who was one. Thank you.

[@richardhendrix7620]

Why do I get angry where The Bruce is esteemed? He abandoned Wallace and killed Comyn all so he could usurp the Scotts throne for his own. Imagine what a United Scotland would look like today if we had a victory at Falkirk or if Comyn Wallace and Bruce had joined their armies.

[@deplorabled1695]

It's an interesting question! I had to google your comment here to even get a vague idea of what you were talking about. However, I think it's moot. Scotland joined England and Wales in great part because there was a very real desire to stop the border conflicts which had afflicted that part of Britain for hundreds of years. A not often spoke part of the long history between the two nations is that Scottish brigands were involved in an ongoing and unrelenting campaign of harassment that lasted decades against settlements within English Crown land.

[@neilanderson841]

@@deplorabled1695 Wrang??!!!. The border troubles involved reivers from both countries, and had absolutely nothing to do with union of crowns.

[@deanwhale367]

Irish were scots. Thats their original name. The old area.

[@ericsalles3393]

🤔

[@Red-Bird-October]

0:35 😂

[@deanwhale367]

Scots actually from the irish word over Ireland. Scotland is picttish the picts people.

[@billiecrouse8002]

oh, excuse me, gallic..

[@JasonHughes-b4c]

you lost a billion dollar entry ticket on staten shit yeah we want 30 for rep

[@Bcfcuklhpwalker]

They didn't take that land from Rome but from Welsh brothonic peoples gododdin this could be bs program saxons an the rest there Different force to Rome also wtf

[@jthomas4361]

Found out I have ulster Scot heritage and I’m black

[@AnnesleyPlaceDub70]

Hogwash. it's just another dialect of the Gaelic Language.

[@gailgray2438]

Carruthers

[@Ulstermanone]

Ulster Gaelic was spoken from 1200BC to moderen day ---------When you understand Ulster created Scotland as part of the Dalirada Kingdom then you are half way there -----When England invaded that is were you get the two coming together but in no way are we Irish Gaelic

[@Ulstermanone]

Not to bright are we -There was no such place as Ireland before Ulster of did you think they came first --what an idiot

[@MrBG998]

Ulstermanone your comments made me stupider. Ireland is an island. It's been around for god knows how long. Ulster was Gaelic and Gaelic speaking until the plantation

[@Ulstermanone]

Really ?-----------With your thinking the irish came before Ulster ---Just think how fucking stupid that sounds !!!----Not even a logical idea

[@Ulstermanone]

Really ?--------------So American came before Kentucky ? Really you fucking Republicans are that Stupid and dont even know the Hibernians came from Iberia or let me make it easier Spain -----Black Irish alright more like thick !

[@Ulstermanone]

Really as an Invader of Ulster -leave and take your language with ya -----Ullish all the way

[@Chanamasalex117]

Heheheheh. Were fuckin cheap. 😇 The scotch-irish share yer Ulster-Scot cheapness. 👍🏻

[@ryacus]

I see that's where it comes from haha.

[@amonster8mymother]

Ach gear off!!!

[@alanthomas2064]

Owen the bald! king ofStrathclud! capital Dumbarton! Briton! p/ Celtic as was William Wallace!

[@aperson5078]

Kentucky here. Child me: Daddy, what are we? Dad: Scotch-Irish. Didn't hesitate. We are not that different from each other. My direct ancestors helped settle the state. The families stayed together. Clan habits are alive and well. 🙂

[@amonster8mymother]

👍😎🇨🇦

[@johnminehan1148]

Wow, a native German speaking English with a noticeable Scots accent . . . .

[@miseisean2847]

2:29 Wayyyyyyyy you "Ulster Scots" can't even recognise your own "language". Haha

[@AAA-fh5kd]

because they didnt let them teach it in schools...

[@tommcguire6773]

Couldn't understand a damn word.

[@loyalsandman]

ya, it's just English with scots words. same with the language scots. 300 years ago the English were better pronounced, written, and Gaelic was separated. now you can see how they started to merge. Ma vs Mo, is slightly pronounced different, but means the same.

[@wlicksilly]

😆😆

[@12345cdog12345]

Its not a language. It is a dialect. Poetry and writings can still be written in it and it can still be respected but it cannot be called a language!