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Scottish English: All varieties of English spoken in Scotland; may not include Scots where this is identified as a language in its own right. ^[e]

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• Indo-European languages [r]: A group of several hundred languages, including the majority of languages spoken in Europe, the Plateau of Iran and the subcontinent of India, that share a considerable common vocabulary and linguistic features. ^[e]
• Germanic languages [r]: Branch of the Indo-European language family, initially spoken in northern and central Europe and now spread over many parts of the world. ^[e]
• West Germanic languages [r]: Branch of the Germanic language family, broadly comprising all varieties of English (including Scots), German, Dutch, Afrikaans, Yiddish and Frisian. ^[e]
• English language [r]: A West Germanic language widely spoken in the United Kingdom, its territories and dependencies, Commonwealth countries and former colonial outposts of the British Empire; has developed the status of a global language. ^[e]
• Varieties of English
• Scotland [r]: A country that forms the northernmost part of the United Kingdom; population about 5,200,000. ^[e]

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• Scots language [r]: A West Germanic variety spoken in southern Scotland and parts of Northern Ireland, which has been identified as either a separate language from English or (over-simplistically) a dialect of English, according to various cultural and linguistic perspectives; shares much with English due to a shared linguistic history, but has developed separately for many centuries. ^[e]
• Scottish Gaelic language [r]: A Goidelic Celtic language spoken in Scotland and Canada. ^[e]