Quote Originally Posted by Canuck of NI View Post
Lallans is of course one word for the dictinctive speech of the Scottish Lowlands and is (more or less) the language Burns wrote in. It's not a Gaelic language per se- although distinctive and unique, it's actually a dialect of what has become standard English- but still Lallans is a very important part of Scottish heritage, and I do believe was (and in a way still is) the language of the Scottish majority. So I'm hanging this thread out there- I personally don't have more to contribute at this time but will be looking around for issues....

EDIT: I neglected to state that Lallans has a lot of undoubted borrowings from Gaelic....
At the risk of stirring the hornet's nest, Lallands is not a language but a a written form of the dialect from the Ayrshire/southwest area. It, that dialect, not spoken in my area or Aberdeenshire, Fife etc.