How is Scots its own language and not just a dialect?
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All languages are dialects. The difference between a language and dialect is not based in linguistics but in politics and culture. Something becomes a language when enough influential people decide they want to call it a language and they get the rest of the people to generally agree.
Written and spoken Tamil are so different that from the outside, you’d think they are different languages, but the speakers and writers of Tamil agree, strangely, that they are one and the same. There are many more speakers than writers of Tamil. That’s why most Tamil speakers you meet, even those whose first language was Tamil, will tell you they don’t know the language very well.
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