No Tongues Left To Chant: Scots - Manchester City of Literature

No Tongues Left To Chant: Scots

Manchester City of Literature project

Scots is now recognised as an official language and in the 2022 census, 1,508,540 people reported that they could speak Scots. It is recognised as having vulnerable status by UNESCO.

Song 15th Tweed Side. When hopes wer all sunk by Allen Ramsey (handwritten). Image courtesy of The University of Manchester Library, John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Manchester Digital Collections (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

Song 15th Tweed Side. When hopes wer all sunk. Image courtesy of The University of Manchester Library, John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Manchester Digital Collections (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).

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View the Scots collection in the digitised Rylands Collection at University of Manchester

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