The History of Scottish Languages

Scott's was undoubtedly a separate language at the current point in our story. In the mid 15 hundreds, not only had it evolved separately from english for almost five centuries, it was also the form of speech used by a large percentage of people in the lowlands of scotland. But that distinctiveness started to be lost with an important development that took place around the time that elizabeth became queen of england. So that development wasn't the later merger of the two royal courts, but it was something that scotland and england had in common.