Because of that, some observers think Scots is not a dialect of English but a distinct (if related) language. The pro-independence Scottish National Party affirms as much in its manifestos.

The platform has provided a forum for the written Scots language to evolve that wasn’t possible before the advent of social media.

Coming in as the number one most 'desirable' accent for Scotland is Edinburgh's. According to Preply, the dialect has certain ...

An American has written and edited thousands of articles on the official Wikipedia site for the centuries-old Scots language. The Wikipedia user AmaryllisGardener, an administrator for the site ...

Long a repressed language, the Scots tongue is experiencing a cultural resurgence thanks to popular drama and storytelling.

The internet was ablaze earlier this week after it was discovered that the bulk of the Wikipedia pages for Scotland were written by an American teenager who doesn't even know the Scots language.

A part of the Germanic language family, the Scots dialect is a close relative to modern English, German, and Dutch that is spoken by 1.5 million people, most of them in Lowland Scotland.

Bobby Hogg, the last native speaker of a dialect originating from a remote fishing village in northern Scotland, has died -- and so has the dialect he spoke.

In the tiny fishing village of Cromarty, on the tip of Scotland's Black Isle, the last speaker of the local dialect has died. Host Rachel Martin speaks with language expert Kelly McGill, about ...