"A Language Strategy for Scots"
The following paper was given by Andy Eagle at a conference on 'Strategies for Minority Languages, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and Scotland' held at Queens University Belfast in September 2010. Thanks to Andy Eagle an Dr John Kirk for giving permission to reproduce it here.
The paper, entitled "A Language Strategy for Scots?", considers developments since the ratification of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages up to the Scottish Government's response to the ministerial working group's report; what a language strategy for Scots might cover; issues for such a strategy; and language strategy in Catalonia, Friesland, Luxembourg, Norway, Switzerland, the Carribean and the United States.
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A Language Strategy for Scots? 
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