A new state-funded agency to promote the use of Scots must be created to afford the language the same status as Gaelic, campaigners have claimed.
In August ministers announced plans to offer “formal support” to promote and protect Scots.
Oor Vyce, a campaign group supported by academics, linguists and writers, now insists the “mither tongue” should have its own version of Bòrd na Gàidhlig.
The public agency, created by the previous Labour and Liberal Democrat administration in 2006 to secure the status of Gaelic, has an annual budget of more than £5 million.
Scots is recognised as an indigenous and vulnerable language by Unesco, with about 1.5 million people in Scotland able to speak it, compared with 57,000 for Gaelic.