Scots Language Centre
The Scots Language Centre (Scots: Centre for the Scots Leid[1]) is an organisation that promotes the use of the Scots language.[2] The current director of the Scots Language Centre is Dr Michael Dempster. It receives funding from the Scottish Government.[3] HistoryThe organisation was founded in 1993 as the Scots Language Resource Centre.[4] In 1996, the centre held a "Spellin Collogue" in an attempt to reform Scots orthography, but was ultimately unsuccessful.[5] In preparation for a new question on the census asking whether residents could understand Scots, the organisation launched a website with example of the language to allow respondents to determine if they could.[6] A digital map of Scotland with Scots place names was published by the Centre in 2019.[7] During 2020, the Centre researched Scots exonyms for European settlements and countries and compiled a map based on this information the following year.[8] In November 2021, the Centre produced a Scots dialectal map of Scotland.[9] In September 2021, the Centre published a guide for writing in Scots.[10] References
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