Re: Franco-Provençal

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...> wrote:

> I should mention that the Wiki article "Phonological History of the
> Scots Language" is an excellent summary of the phonology of Scots, and
> I think the divergence from standard English is great enough to make
> it a separate language, though Italian dialects (if they're not
> languages) probably diverge at least as much if not more.

Ethnologue used to list Scots as 2 or 3 languages - Lallans, Scots
Doric and Ulster Scots, though now they are listed as a single language.

Richard.