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Scottish Lowlands

<p>The <b>Lowlands</b> (<a href="/en/Scots_language" title="Scots language" class="wl">Scots</a><span>: </span><i lang="sco">Lallans</i> or <span><i lang="sco">Lawlands</i></span>; <a href="/en/Scottish_Gaelic_language" title="Scottish Gaelic language" class="mw-redirect wl">Scottish Gaelic</a><span>: </span><i lang="gd">a' Ghalldachd</i><span>, </span><small about="#mwt17"><a href="/en/Literal_translation" title="Literal translation" class="wl">lit.</a><span> </span></small><span>'</span><span>place of the foreigners</span><span>'</span>, <small about="#mwt18" typeof="mw:Transclusion" data-mw="{&quot;parts&quot;:[{&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;target&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;IPA-gd&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;./Template:IPA-gd&quot;},&quot;params&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;ˈaˈɣauɫ̪t̪əxk&quot;},&quot;2&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;pron&quot;}},&quot;i&quot;:0}}]}">pronounced<span>&nbsp;</span></small><span class="IPA"><a href="/en/Help:IPA/Scottish_Gaelic" title="Help:IPA/Scottish Gaelic" class="wl">[ˈaˈɣauɫ̪t̪əxk]</a></span>) is a cultural and <a href="/en/Historical_region" title="Historical region" class="wl">historical region</a> of <a href="/en/Scotland" title="Scotland" class="wl">Scotland</a>.<span class="mw-ref reference" id="cite_ref-EB_1-0"><a href="#cite_note-EB-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text">[1]</span></a></span> Culturally, the Lowlands and the <a href="/en/Scottish_Highlands" title="Scottish Highlands" class="wl">Highlands</a> diverged from the <a href="/en/Late_Middle_Ages" title="Late Middle Ages" class="wl">Late Middle Ages</a> into the <a href="/en/Modern_period" title="Modern period" class="mw-redirect wl">modern period</a>, when <a href="/en/Scots_language" title="Scots language" class="wl">Lowland Scots</a> replaced <a href="/en/Scottish_Gaelic" title="Scottish Gaelic" class="wl">Scottish Gaelic</a> throughout most of the Lowlands.</p>

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    A' Ghalldachd&nbsp;(Scottish Gae...</b> <span class='arrow'>▼</span></header> <table class="infobox ib-settlement vcard mobile-collapse-element"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above"><div class="fn org">Lowlands</div>
    <div class="nickname ib-settlement-native"><span><i lang="gd">A' Ghalldachd</i></span><span>&nbsp;</span><span class="languageicon" style="font-size:100%; font-weight:normal">(<a href="/en/Scottish_Gaelic_language" title="Scottish Gaelic language" class="mw-redirect wl">Scottish Gaelic</a>)</span><br><span><i lang="sco">Lallans, Lawlands</i></span><span>&nbsp;</span><span class="languageicon" style="font-size:100%; font-weight:normal">(<a href="/en/Scots_language" title="Scots language" class="wl">Scots</a>)</span></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span><a href="/en/File:Scottish_Highlands_and_Lowlands.png" class="mw-file-description image media-thumb" title="The Lowlands, shown in light green" data-hash="File:Scottish_Highlands_and_Lowlands.png"><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Scottish_Highlands_and_Lowlands.png/250px-Scottish_Highlands_and_Lowlands.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="584" data-file-height="768" data-file-type="bitmap" height="329" width="250" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Scottish_Highlands_and_Lowlands.png/375px-Scottish_Highlands_and_Lowlands.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Scottish_Highlands_and_Lowlands.png/500px-Scottish_Highlands_and_Lowlands.png 2x" alt="Scottish_Highlands_and_Lowlands.png"></a></span><div class="ib-settlement-caption">The Lowlands, shown in light green</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">Scotland</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Demonym" title="Demonym" class="wl">Demonym</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Lowlander</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/en/Time_zone" title="Time zone" class="wl">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/UTC+0" title="UTC+0" class="mw-redirect wl">UTC+0</a> (<a href="/en/Greenwich_Mean_Time" title="Greenwich Mean Time" class="wl">GMT</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><span>&nbsp;</span>•<span>&nbsp;</span>Summer (<a href="/en/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time" class="wl">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/UTC+1" title="UTC+1" class="mw-redirect wl">UTC+1</a> (<a href="/en/British_Summer_Time" title="British Summer Time" class="wl">BST</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table> <footer class='mobile-collapse-footer mobile-collapse-btn'><b>Close</b> <span class='arrow'>▲</span></footer></div>



The Lowlands is a cultural and historical region of Scotland. Culturally, the Lowlands and the Highlands diverged from the Late Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands. 