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Sigma KEE - ScotsLanguage
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ScotsLanguage
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The ScotsLanguage is an EnglishGroupLanguage of the UnitedKingdom. SIL code: SCO. ISO 639-2: sco. Population: 100,000 (1999 Billy Kay) including 60,000 in Lallans, 30,000 in Doric, 10,000 in Ulster. Population total both countries 100,000. Region: All of Scotland except highlands: lowlands: Aberdeen to Ayrshire. Northern Ireland. Doric dialect in northeastern Scotland, Lallans in South Scotland lowlands, Ulster in Northern Ireland. Also spoken in Ireland. Dialects: DORIC, LALLANS, ULSTER. Comments: Difficult intelligibility among dialects. Northern Scots on the Scottish Islands is considered by some to be a different language (Shetlandic or Orcadian). Doric and Ulster are inherently intelligible to speakers, but difficulties are common in speech and writing. Lallans is the main literary dialect. Ulster Scots has its own development group. Scots is closest to English and Frisian. English is considered to be the language of education and religion. Used with family and friends. All ages. 1,500,000 speak it as second language. Dictionary. SVO, prepositions, gentivies, articles, adjectives, numerals before noun heads, relatives without noun heads, question word initial, 2 prefixes, 1 suffix, word order distinguishes subjects, objects, indirect objects, given and new information, topic and comment, affixes indicate genitive case of noun phrase, passives, comparatives, CVC, nontonal. Literacy rate in second language: 97% English. Poetry, magazines. Christian. NT 1901-1984. Also spoken in: Ireland. (Language name: SCOTS.) Comments: English is considered to be the language of education and religion. Used with family and friends. All ages. Christian. NT 1901-1984. See main entry under United Kingdom.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
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| Instances | ContentBearingPhysical | Un Object o Process que expresa contenido. Esto cubre los Objects que contienen una Proposition, como un libro, así como un ManualSignLanguage, por lo que puede contener una Proposition. |
| | EnglishGroupLanguage | Of the 43 WestGermanicLanguages, five are classified as an EnglishGroupLanguage.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | Entity | La clase universal de individuos. Es el nodo principal de la ontología. |
| | GermanicLanguage | A GermanicLanguage is any of 58 closely related IndoEuropeanLanguages spoken in the UnitedKingdom and northern and central Europe.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | HumanLanguage | La subclass de Languages usados o sea «lenguajes naturales» por Humans. |
| | IndoEuropeanLanguage | There are 433 languages categorized as an IndoEuropeanLanguage, forming a major family of the world's languages and including many of the most familiar languages of Europe and South Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/) |
| | Language | Un sistema de signos para expresar pensamientos. El sistema puede ser natural o artificial, por ejemplo, algo que emerge poco a poco como un artefacto cultural o algo se crea intencionalmente por una persona o grupo de personas. |
| | LanguageFamily | A LanguageFamily is group of SpokenHumanLanguages related through descent from a common ancestral language. (reference from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_family) |
| | LinguisticExpression | Esta es la subclase de ContentBearingPhysical que es relacionada con idiomas. Note que esta Class abarca ambos Language y los elementos de Languages, por ejemplo Words «palabras». |
| | NaturalLanguage | La subclass de HumanLanguages (lenguajes naturales) que fueron diseñados y que evolucionaron de generación a generación. Esta clase incluye todos los lenguajes nacionales como el inglés, el español y el japonés, etc. Note que esta clase incluye los dialectos de lenguajes naturales. |
| | Physical | Una entidad que tiene ubicación en espacio-tiempo. Note que las ubicaciones se entienden tener sitio en espacio-tiempo. |
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