KnowraScots languageLinked fromLinked fromThe 16 pages that link to Scots language, each with the reason it gives.All 16Related 6Narrower topic 3Compared with 7English languageCompared with: Scots and English share a history but are distinct language varieties with contested boundaries.Scottish GaelicCompared with: Scots is often confused with Scottish Gaelic, but it belongs to a different language family.Early Modern EnglishCompared with: Its development alongside English complicates accounts that treat the period’s language as uniform.British EnglishCompared with: Its distinction from Scottish English is central to debates over language and national identity.Language divergenceCompared with: Its relationship to English shows how labels of language and dialect involve social as well as structural factors.Kingdom of StrathclydeCompared with: Its later dominance contrasts with the Brittonic language associated with Strathclyde.History of EnglishCompared with: Its separate development complicates simple accounts of English as Britain's only Germanic language.