Hieland Inglis

It is mair strangly influenced bi Gaelic than ither forms o Scots Inglis. Island Inglis is the variety spaken as a seicont leid bi native Gaelic speakers in the Ooter Hebrides. The varieties o Inglis spaken in the Hielands can be dividit intae five categories:

1. Aulder native speakers o Gaelic, wha hae acquired local varieties o Inglis as a seicont leid.
2. Native Gaelic speakers wha hae spent extendit periods ootside the Hielands an acquired some ither variety o Inglis.
3. Speakers whase first leid is English raither than Gaelic, an wha hae acquired a mair-or-less distinctive variety o Hieland Inglis frae their parents or peers.
4. Speakers o Lawland Scots or Scots Inglis.
5. Speakers o Inglis leid in Ingland or non-Scots varieties.

Hiehland Inglis excludes the last twa categories. It is nae surpreise that there is substantial differences atween the dialect o speakers in the first three categories.