Editing Lothian (section)

== Language ==
In the post-Roman period, Lothian was dominated by British-speakers whose language is generally called [[Cumbric]] and was closely related to [[Welsh language|Welsh]]. In Welsh tradition Lothian is part of the "Old North" (''{{lang|cy|[[Hen Ogledd]]}}''). Reminders exist in British place-names like [[Tranent]], [[Linlithgow]] and [[Penicuik]].<ref name="cyber">{{cite web |url=http://www.cyberscotia.com/ancient-lothian/index.html |title=Ancient Lothian |publisher=Cyberscotia.net |access-date=2007-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205054427/http://www.cyberscotia.com/ancient-lothian/index.html |archive-date=2010-12-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

During the Anglo-Saxon period, the Northumbrian dialect of [[Old English]] came to be spoken in the region. Initially confined to Lothian and the Borders, the language would grow, change, and spread across the lowlands of Scotland, becoming the [[Scots language]]. The dialects of the modern Lothians are usually considered to be part of [[Central Scots]]. Place names in the Lothians of Anglian origin include [[Ingliston]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Literary Corstorphine: A reader's guide to West Edinburgh|date=2017|last=Bell|first=Raymond MacKean|location=Edinburgh|publisher=Leamington Books|isbn=9780244644406}}</ref>

Although one of the few areas of mainland Scotland where the [[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]] language was never dominant, the presence of some Gaelic place-names,<ref name="cyber" /><ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4396660.stm |title=Gaelic roots need to be unearthed |work=BBC News |date=2005-11-02 |author=Craig Cockburn}}</ref> e.g. [[Dalry, Edinburgh|Dalry]], [[Currie]], [[Balerno]] and [[Cockenzie]], has been attributed to the "temporary occupation...[and] the presence of a landowning Gaelic-speaking aristocracy and their followers for something like 150–200 years."<ref>{{cite book |author=W. F. H. Nicolaisen |title=Scottish Place Names |page=240 |isbn=978-0-85976-556-5 |publisher=John Donald Publishers |year=2001}}</ref>