低地苏格兰语

王朝百科·作者佚名 2010-03-06

★低地苏格兰语★（Scots language）是低地苏格兰人所使用的语言，属于一种日耳曼语族的语言。低地苏格兰语约略自12世纪开始发展，自16世纪初定型命名称呼至今。该语言语法等用法与英语十分相似，因此有时候亦被称为英语的方言之一，事实上，很多人认为低地苏格兰语也是直接由英语衍化而成。低地苏格兰语为五百万人口的苏格兰地区所常用语言之一，在该地亦是英语和盖尔语之外的官方语言之一。

低地苏格兰语方言：

①北方苏格兰语（Doric dialect）：

词汇以及词组举例：

"Causey Mounth" – the road over the "Mounth" or Grampians

"Claik" – the Doric dialect of Buchan fishing villages

"Foggy bummer" – Bumblebee

"Fa? (wha?) Fit? (whit?) Fit wey? (whit wey?) Faur? (whaur) Fan?" (whan) - "Who? What? What way? Why? Where? When?"

"Far aboots?" (Whaur aboots?) – Whereabouts? (Aberdeen is nicknamed "Furry Boots City" from a humorous spelling of far aboots – furry boots.)

"Futret" (Whitrat) – Weasel or other Mustelid, but commonly used for ferret now

"Louns an quines" (louns an queans) – Lads and lassies, boys and girls. (NB "loun" or "loon" has no derogatory connotation in Doric)

"Min" – Man, as in "Ay ay, min".

"fou lang" (hou lang) - how long

"for a filie" (for a whilie) - for a long time

"gealt" - cold

"Fit like?" (Whit like): A greeting, essentially, "How are you doing?", to which the response is "Aye... tyauvin on." (Aye tawin on) "Fine, thanks"

"Fit?" (Whit): "What?"

"Fit ye deein?" (Whit ye daein?): "What are you doing?"

"Far div ye bide?" (Whaur div ye bide?): "Where do you live?"

"Foo's yer doos?" (Hou's yer dous?): Literally "How are your pigeons?", now used as "How are you?" A stock phrase, not so often used in speech as to send up Doric.

"Aye peckin": Literally "Always pecking." This is the reply to "Fou's yer doos?"

"Fit's adee?" (Whit's adae?): "What's wrong?"

"Gie's a bosie!": "Give me a hug!"

"A'm fair forfochten": "I am very tired."

The Broch - Fraserburgh also Burghead near Elgin.

②中部苏格兰语

③南部苏格兰语

④海岛苏格兰语：一般的又细分为，Shetlandic和Orcadian

（1）Shetlandic：

[1]代词：du=you dine, dines=yours dee=you

[2]词汇举例：

flan=gust of wind