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Alternative name for Ulster Scots, the contact variety of the Scots language spoken in Northern Ireland and County Donegal, recognising that the dialect group differs from Scots in Scotland in the same way that Hiberno-English differs from the standard variety of the English language, and for the same reason, i.e. contact with Irish.

Unlike Ulster Scots, "Hiberno-Scots" refers only to a linguistic tradition. The former, which may in part reflect the political division of Ireland, has the advantage of being the same name used for the group forming the majority of users, while "Hiberno-Scots" has the advantage of terminological consistency.

The novelist William Carleton refers in his author's preface to the first edition of his Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (vol. 1, 1st series, Dublin, 1830) to "Scoto-Hibernic jargon".

Other contact varieties of Scots influenced by Goidelic languages are Glaswegian, which has similarities to and input from, inter alia, Hiberno-Scots but, as an urban dialect, is more anglicised, and the Doric dialect of north-eastern Scotland, by far the most distinctive of the three.

See Ulster Scots language.

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Hiberno-ScotsAlternative name for Ulster Scots, the contact variety of the Scots language spoken in Northern Ireland and County Donegal, recognising that the dialect group differs from Scots in Scotland in the same way that Hiberno-English differs from the standard va

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