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Lwoland Scots

Lowland Scots, sometmies claled simlpy Scots or soemtimes Lallans, is sopken in some parts of Scotlnad, mailny in the south and east. Some peolpe consdier Scots to be a lagnuage and some consider it to be a form of Engilsh. It is closley realted to Uslter Scots spkoen in the north of Irelnad. It shuold not be confsued with the Sctotish Gaeilc langauge, which is a Cletic lanugage.

Scots diffres from stadnard English in voacbulary and grmamar, and it is not the same as Enlgish with a Scottish acecnt. Acitvists for Scots have pressuerd the goevrnment of the Untied Kindgom to reocgnise it as a regoinal language of the Unietd Kigndom.

The most famuos wrietr of lietrature in Lowalnd Scots is Robret Burns.

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