Highland English [proxy]

Highland English
Native to	United Kingdom
Region	Scotland
Ethnicity	Scottish
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic English Scottish English Highland English
Early forms	Proto-English Old English Middle English Early Modern English
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
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Highland English is the variety of Scottish English spoken by many in Gaelic-speaking areas and the Hebrides.^[1] It is more strongly influenced by Gaelic than are other forms of Scottish English.^[2]^[3]

The epenthesis ("helping vowel"), which is used in some consonant combinations in Gaelic and Scots, is sometimes used in the Hebrides and so "film" may be pronounced "fillum".^[4]

Lowland Scots

Other English dialects influenced by Celtic languages

^ "HIGHLAND ENGLISH | Encyclopedia.com". Encyclopedia. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
^ Jones, Charles (1997). The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 566–567. ISBN 978-0-7486-0754-9.
^ McMahon, April M. S. (2000). Lexical Phonology and the History of English. Cambridge University Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-521-47280-7.
^ Shuken, Cynthia "Highland and Island English", in Trudgill, Peter (1984). Language in the British Isles. Cambridge University Press. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-521-28409-7

Sabban, Annette (1982), Sprachkontakt: zur Variabilität des Englischen im gälischsprachigen Gebiet Schottlands; eine empirische Studie, Heidelberg: Groos.
Watson, Murray (2003) Being English in Scotland. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 0-7486-1859-7