Phonological history of Scots

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This is a presentation of the phonological history of the Scots language.

Scots has its origins in Old English (OE) via early Northern Middle English;^[1] though loanwords from Old Norse^[2] and Romance sources are common, especially from ecclesiastical and legal Latin, Anglo-Norman and Middle French borrowings.^[3] Trade and immigration led to some borrowings from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch.^[4] Some vocabulary has been borrowed from Scotland's other language, Scottish Gaelic.^[5]

^ Macafee, Caroline; Aitken, A. J. (2002). "A History of Scots to 1700 in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue vol. XII, xxix-clvii. Online". Retrieved 4 January 2021.
^ A History of Scots to 1700, pp. lxii
^ A History of Scots to 1700, pp. lxiii-lxv
^ A History of Scots to 1700, pp. lxiii
^ A History of Scots to 1700, pp. lxi

[1] Macafee, Caroline; Aitken, A. J. (2002). "A History of Scots to 1700 in A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue vol. XII, xxix-clvii. Online". Retrieved 4 January 2021.

[2] A History of Scots to 1700, pp. lxii

[3] A History of Scots to 1700, pp. lxiii-lxv

[4] A History of Scots to 1700, pp. lxiii

[5] A History of Scots to 1700, pp. lxi

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