Scots has been and is a language of high literature. The north-east takes a strong place in this literature, in the figures of, for example, the poets and Aberdeenshire natives Charles Murray ...

The Scots Language Awards will return to Ayrshire after a successful first visit to the area last year.

"Generally, accents can help with language learning because they train your ear to recognise and reproduce sounds," Anna Pyshna, spokesperson at Preply, explained.

The Scots spoken in Outlander may not be the language spoken today in Scotland, but rather a stage-Scots – essentially English dressed in tartan and cockade – yet it is still to be cheered.

Thank ye very much. SHAPIRO: That Scots, a language spoken by 1.5 million people in Scotland. It's been disappearing since English is the official language there.

A free online language learning service with more than 300 million users will launch its Scottish Gaelic course on St Andrew’s Day.