Older Scots refers to the following periods in the

history of the Scots language The history of the Scots language refers to how Anglic varieties spoken in parts of Scotland developed into modern Scots. Origins Speakers of Northumbrian Old English settled in south eastern Scotland in the 7th century, at which time ...

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Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd.
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of th

and by th

. It is also used in the ''Oxford Companion to the English Language'' and the

'. * Pre-literary Scots to 1375 *

Early Scots Early Scots was the emerging literary language of the Northern Middle English speaking parts of Scotland in the period before 1450. The northern forms of Middle English descended from Northumbrian Old English. During this period, speakers ref ...

to 1450 *

Middle Scots Middle Scots was the Anglic language of Lowland Scotland in the period from 1450 to 1700. By the end of the 15th century, its phonology, orthography, accidence, syntax and vocabulary had diverged markedly from Early Scots, which was virtually ...

to 1700 The online ''

Dictionary of the Scots Language The ''Dictionary of the Scots Language'' (DSL) ( sco, Dictionar o the Scots Leid, gd, Faclair de Chànan na Albais) is an online Scots-English dictionary, now run by Dictionaries of the Scots Language, formerly known as Scottish Language Dicti ...

'' includes the ''

Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue The ''Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue'' (DOST) is a 12-volume dictionary that documents the history of the Scots language covering Older Scots from the earliest written evidence in the 12th century until the year 1700. DOST was compile ...

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Dictionary of the Scots Language
' Scots language