AN INTRODUCTION
TO ULSTER SCOTS

SPEECH & LITERATURE
This introduction is designed as a list of FAQs. Either select a specific question or topic, or start at Number 1 and go straight through all the questions. If you have any suggestions or queries, e-mail us here.
1. What is Ulster-Scots?
2. Where does Ulster Scots come from?

3. Is Ulster Scots really a language?

4. Is Ulster Scots easy to learn?

5. How old is Ulster Scots?

6. Has Scots any effect on English?

7. Scots words that look like English

8. Ulster Scots words in place names

9. What influence has Scots in Belfast?
10. Where is it actually spoken?
11. Why do you seldom hear it?

12. Does Gaelic have any influence?

13. Is Ulster Scots not just slang?

14. Does Scots have its own dialects?

15. 'Ullans' and 'Ulster Scots'
16. Ulster Scots' influence elsewhere

17. What use is Ulster Scots?

18. What literature does Scots have?
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