New site puts mother tongue online
Updated on 12 August 2007
People all over the world can now hear the Scots language thanks to a new website.
Researchers at Glasgow University have recently completed work on the site, which contains more than four million words in Scots and Scottish English.
In addition to explaining the meaning of distinctive Scots words and showing how they are used, the site also has links to audio recordings, allowing people to hear the words being spoken.
Already, people from America, Australia, China, Japan and South America have logged on to use the resource, as well as people here.
The website currently includes text from 1945 up to the present day, with researchers working on expanding it.
They are working to build up a new resource for older varieties of language, dating from 1700 to 1945.
Once completed this should allow people to trace the development of features of Scots and Scottish English over time.
Project researcher, Dr Wendy Anderson, said: "The Scots language is a source of interest across the world as it is one aspect of a long and flourishing cultural heritage.
"The website will be a useful language resource for academic researchers and students, language learners and teachers, dictionary writers and secondary school language teachers, not to mention for the large number of general users who just want to satisfy a curiosity about the Scots language."
The online resource - www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk - is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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