I made a joke in a YouTube comment saying Scots are the Jamaicans of white people and before I could reply with a fun historical dive into the cultural parallels, my first comment was deleted.

I'll post my reply here instead because it's super interesting. (Thread)

There's 3 transitional languages in Scotland. There's Scottish English which transitions to the Scots language, which then transitions all the way to the Gaelic (pronounced gah-lic) language which comes directly from the native language before English colonization.

This is somewhat smilar to the transition of Jamaican Creole/English to Patois and then to Kromanti, a composite of west African Akan languages primarily Asante (Ghana). Plus hints of the Aboriginal native Arawakan language (unfortunately not many native speakers still exist)

Transitional languages are super interesting. Because there's no clear marker of when you move from one language to another. It's a gradient from on end to the other.

Scottish English -> Scots -> Gaelic
Jamaican English -> Patois -> Kromanti

The linguistic and cultural parallels are actually super interesting considering the didn't really have any influence on one another and developed at different times under different circumstances.

My first comment went into the historical parallels of a native people, an emigrating people, and a colonizing people. (The circumstances of emigration being voluntarily only for Scotland and obviously not for the west Africans in Jamaica)

Not to draw any comparisons to the cultural content or extent of hardships and suffering. Just drawing linguistic evolution comparisons. And the similarities are quite interesting consider how different everything around them seems on first glance.

Linguistics is really neat and fun and having my positive comments deleted because it was perceived as being negative hurt my feely weelies.

IM BEING CENSORED REEEEEEEE

But for real tho. It is sad that my harmless analysis came off bad because I led off with a harmless joke.

UPDATE:
After an informative discussion with some Gaelic speakers and Scottish and Irish natives, it seems I was mistaken about the "transition" between Scots and Gaelic. Gaelic is the old native language and Scots developed as a form of the Germanic Middle-english.

They're similar but the liguistic evolution isn't A->B like I had previously thought.

That being said, the other comparisons are still somewhat accurate. However, I am not an expert
If you cite me as a source rather than researching on your own, I'll the first to call you out.