Lallans is a literary form of Scots, especially the written Scots used by poets who draw on Lowland dialects, older Scots words, and modern coinages to create a distinct poetic language. It is most closely associated with writers such as Hugh MacDiarmid, though earlier poets like Robert Burns also used Scots in related ways. In practice, the term usually suggests a deliberate literary revival rather than everyday speech.
Example
The burn gaed by the stane kirk dyke,
And auld nicht lichtit the brae;
The wind spak low in Lallans words,
Then drew the dark away.
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[n] a dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland