Is Ulster Scots a real language?

Is Sicilian a real language?

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>>1642444
>Is Ulster Scots a real language?
no

Didn't we have this thread a few days ago?

Anyway, the answer is no, it's a dialect of English. The orthography and a good chunk of the vocabulary is largely invented and has no relation to Scots as it was historically spoken in the north Ireland.

Scots itself is a language, as it diverged from English in the 900s and evolved independently of it. Ulster Scots is a conscious, artificial effort to try and create a language for the British community in Northern Ireland, who are starting to get a bit worried as the Irish language is getting more popular in both the Catholic and Protestant communities there.

I can notice some mistakes even from the image you posted. The past tense morpheme "-t" is just a debased form of the English "-ed", unrelated linguistically to the proper Scots "-it". And "vocabulary"? This was obviously done by someone who doesn't speak the dialect natively and was using some sort of dictionary or other resource. The Scots word for vocabulary that I've seen most commonly used Is "wuirdkist".

>>1642444
TURNT INTAE ULSTER SCOTS BAE

I'm Protestant as it gets I love the 12th but fuck know. Fucking awful language.

As with the rest of our politics, albeit those that don't end in death, it's largely just a bit of banter.

Christ it's worse than Ghaelic. Alot easier to learn for English speakers mind haha.

>>1642484
As an ulster-scot ~I can tell you it's literally just people writing in our accent

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a wee bump for the lads

I've always thought that this is but an elaborate joke; but I guess not