TheScots Language Centre (Scots:Centre for the Scots Leid[1]) is an organisation that promotes the use of theScots language.[2] The director of the Scots Language Centre is Dr Michael Dempster. It receives funding from theScottish Government.[3]
The organisation was founded in 1993 as theScots Language Resource Centre.[4] In 1996, the centre held a "Spellin Collogue" in an attempt to reformScots orthography, but was ultimately unsuccessful.[5]
In preparation for a new question on the census asking whether residents could understand Scots, the organisation launched a website with example of the language to allow respondents to determine if they could.[6]
A digital map of Scotland with Scots place names was published by the Centre in 2019.[7] During 2020, the Centre researched Scots exonyms for European settlements and countries and compiled a map based on this information the following year.[8] In November 2021, the Centre produced a Scots dialectal map of Scotland.[9] In September 2021, the Centre published a guide for writing in Scots.[10]
