Yes but in a bit of an odd way as I ubderstand it, not quite a cousin of English not quite a dialect but its given the classification of an independent language since most folks cant understand it fully. Frankly if Scots is its own language then about a dozen other dialects and accents need to be reclassified as well starting with West Country.
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Sorse@discuss.tchncs.de · 37 pts · 1y
Yeah I can speak 8 languages: American, Australian, English, British, Irish, New Zealandish, Russian, Canadian
chicagohuman@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 1y
Irish is a legitimately separate language related to Gaelic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_language
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Yeah a better one for the list would be Scots, or maybe Caijun English dialect.
Nythos@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Scots is also classed as its own separate language, isn’t it?
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Yes but in a bit of an odd way as I ubderstand it, not quite a cousin of English not quite a dialect but its given the classification of an independent language since most folks cant understand it fully. Frankly if Scots is its own language then about a dozen other dialects and accents need to be reclassified as well starting with West Country.
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 1y
I see you did not include Scotland.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
They're their own thing up there
don@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y
Five, actually.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 1y
Ahh yes and then theres hungarian. The most spoken language that i have mutual intelligibility with has 10k speakers...
Sonor@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
And people 200 km away belong to such a radically different language group you have no chance to make out what they are saying
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
Well to the north i at least understand a little because slovakian is very similar.
fushuan@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
How is it that there's a whole class country with less native speakers than here in the Basque Contry, a province of Spain?
introvertcatto@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y
Same! :3
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
Can you spell in all of them?
WereCat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Me English very yes!
DytallixB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
As a Bosnian I can confirm that