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Scots

Шотландцы

language area per Glottologcensus counts
5,453,649
United States, census 2023 (ancestry (self-reported))
Indo-European
language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in United States: 5,453,649 people in the 2023 census.

Main language: Scots. Glottolog classifies it in the Indo-European family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

United States2023 · ancestry (self-reported) · «Scottish» · [1]
5,453,649
United Kingdom2022 · ethnicity / nationality · «Scottish only (national identity)» · [2]
65.5%

Languages and their lineage

Scots

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Germanicgerm1287
  4. Northwest Germanicnort3152
  5. West Germanicwest2793
  6. North Sea Germanicnort3175
  7. Anglo-Frisianangl1264
  8. Anglicangl1265
  9. Later Angliclate1254
  10. Scotsscot1243

Scottish Gaelic

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Celticcelt1248
  4. Nuclear Celticnucl1715
  5. Core Celtictgbc1234
  6. Insular Celticinsu1254
  7. Goidelicgoid1240
  8. Modern Goidelicmode1265
  9. Eastern Goideliceast2734
  10. Scottish Gaelicscot1245

English

  1. Indo-Europeanindo1319
  2. Classical Indo-Europeanclas1257
  3. Germanicgerm1287
  4. Northwest Germanicnort3152
  5. West Germanicwest2793
  6. North Sea Germanicnort3175
  7. Anglo-Frisianangl1264
  8. Anglicangl1265
  9. Later Angliclate1254
  10. Middle-Modern Englishmerc1242
  11. Macro-Englishmacr1271
  12. Englishstan1293

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

PakistanisRussiansMarathiGermansSpaniardsMexicansUkrainiansEnglishIrishAmericansItaliansRomaniansNepali (Khas-Arya)DutchBelarusiansTajiksCzechsSerbsBulgariansSlovaksArmeniansCubansLithuaniansAlbanians

Sources

  1. U.S. Census Bureau. ACS 2023 1-year, Table B04006 (variable B04006_067E, label Estimate!!Total:!!Scottish). https://data.census.gov/api/access/data/table?id=ACSDT1Y2023.B04006&g=010XX00US
  2. National Records of Scotland. Scotland's Census 2022 - Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion. https://www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk/2022-reports/scotland-s-census-2022-ethnic-group-nation…
  3. Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)