Ulster Scots in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

The Scots language came to Ulster with the Scottish settlers of the Plantation in the early seventeenth century. 

Its presence was sustained and reinforced by later migrations and by the strong social and economic ties across the narrow North Channel. Ulster-Scots (or ‘Ullans’ or even the ‘Braid Scotch’) is a variant of Scots, the language used by Robert Burns in many of his poems. 

Ulster Scots is spoken in parts of Ulster in Northern Ireland, and also in the Republic of Ireland.