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Southern Scots is one of the names given to the dialect (or group of dialects) of Scots spoken in the Scottish Borders counties of mid and east Dumfriesshire, Roxburghshire and Selkirkshire, with the notable exception of Berwickshire and Peeblesshire, which are, like Edinburgh, part of the SE Central Scots dialect area. It may also be known as Border Scots, the Border tongue or by the names of the towns inside the South Scots area, for example ''Teri'' in Hawick from the phrase Teribus ye teri odin. Towns where South Scots dialects are spoken include Earlston, Galashiels ''(Gala or Galae)'', Hawick, Jedburgh ''(Jethart)'', Kelso ''(Kelsae)'', Langholm, Lockerbie, Newcastleton ''(Copshaw or Copshawholm)'', St. Boswells ''(Bosells)'' and Selkirk. ==Phonology== Southern Scots phonology is generally similar to that of the neighbouring Central Scots varieties; however, some vowel realisations may differ markedly. * ch may be realised after back vowels, for example ''lauch'' (laugh) and ''sauch'' (willow). The cluster och is often realised ,〔 for example ''bocht'' (bought), ''coch'' (cough), ''dochter'' (daughter), ''focht'' (fought), ''socht'' (sought)and ''troch'' (trough) often written ''bowcht'', ''cowch'', ''dowchter'', ''fowcht'', ''sowcht'' and ''trowch'' in dialect writing. After front vowels the realisation is , occasionally with a yod-glide before it.〔 * ld and nd are usually elided to and in East Dumfriesshire and Roxburghshire. * a (vowel 17) is often . Note final ''a'' (vowel 12) in ''awa'' (away), ''twa'' (two) and ''wha'' (who) is often realised , often written ''awae'', ''twae'' and ''whae'' in dialect writing. * aw and au (vowel 12) may be realised rather than or as in Central Scots dialects, for example ''aw'' (all), ''cauld'' (cold), ''braw'' (handsome), ''faw'' (fall) and ''snaw'' (snow), often written using ''a''(''a'') in dialect writing. * In some areas ai or a(consonant)e (vowel 4 or 8) may be realised rather that , for example ''baith'' (both), ''braid'' (broad), ''cake'', ''claes'' (clothes), ''grape'' (grope), ''kail'' (cole), ''laid'' (load), ''laif'' (loaf), ''made'', ''raip'' (rope), ''saip'' (soap) often written ''beeath'', ''breead'', ''keeak'', ''cleeaz'', ''greeap'', ''keeal'', ''leead'', ''leeaf'', ''meead'', ''reeap'', ''seeap'' in dialect writing. When the vowel occurs initially the realisation is often for example ''acre'', ''aik'' (oak), ''aits'', (oats), ''ale'', ''ane'' (one) and ''ance'' (once) often written ''yicker'', ''yick'', ''yits'', ''yill'', ''yin'' and ''yince'' in dialect writing. Similarly after in ''hale'' (whole), ''hame'' (home) and ''hairse'' (hoarse) often written ''hyil'', ''hyim'' and ''hyirs''(''c'')''h'') in dialect writing. The realisation may also occur for final ae in for example ''spae'' (foretell). * In some varieties e (vowel 16) may be realised 〔 rather than , for example ''bed'', ''het'' (heated), ''yett'' (gate), etc. * Final ee (vowel 11) is usually realised ,〔 for example ''dree'' (endure), ''flee'' (fly), ''lee'' (lie, fib), ''see'', ''thee'' (thigh) and ''tree'', often written ''drei'' or ''drey'', ''flei'' or ''fley'', ''lei'' or ''ley'', ''sei'', ''sey'', ''thei'' or ''theye'' and ''trei'' or ''trey'' in dialect writing. * eu (vowel 7 before and see ''ui'') is often realised ,〔 for example ''beuk'' (book), ''eneuch'' (enough), ''ceuk'' (cook), ''leuk'' (look) and ''teuk'' (took). * ou, also ''oo'' (vowel 6) when final is realised ,〔 for example ''brou'' (brow), ''cou'' (cow), ''dou'' (dove), ''hou'' (how), ''nou'' (now), ''fou'' (full), ''pou'' (pull), ''sou'' (sow), ''allou'' (allow), ''throu'' (through) and ''you'' often represented by ''ow''(''e'') in dialect writing. *ow, owe (root final) (vowel 13) may be rather than in ''bowe'' (bow), ''howe'' (hollow), ''knowe'' (knoll), ''cowp'' (overturn), ''yowe'' (ewe), etc. * ui (vowel 7) is often realised or ,〔 however an unrounded realisation as in Central Scots is now widespread, for example, ''abuin'' (above), ''cuit'' (ankle) and ''guid'' (good). Unrounding to is now common in ''adae'' (ado), ''buird'' (board), ''dae'' (do), ''fluir'' (floor), ''fuird'' (ford), ''shae'' (shoe) and ''tae'' (to~too). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Southern Scots」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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