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tools; materials and colours; movement; whims, ludicrous behaviour, unbalanced states of mind, qualities." But, as published, the paper he cites (The Norn Element in Shetland Dialect Today – A Case of Never-Accepted Language Death, in Ejerhed, E. and I. Henrysson (eds.) Tvåspråkighet. Föredrag från tredje Nordiska Tvåspråkighetssymposiet 4-5 juni 1980. Acta Universitatis Umensis. Umeå Studies in the Humanities 36. 254-261) does not include such a list.
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Language in the British Isles. Ed. Peter Trudgill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p.29 states that a paper by Gunnel Melchers "lists the following areas of vocabulary as being particularly rich in Norn words: types of wind and weather; flowers and plants; animals; seasons and holidays; food;
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occurs in, for example, James John Haldane Burgess (1892) Rasmie's Büddie: poems in the Shetlandic, Alexander Gardner; James Inkster (1922) Mansie's Röd: Sketches in the Shetlandic; T. & J. Manson; Jack Renwick (1963) Rainbow Bridge. (A collection of poems in English & Shetlandic.), Shetland
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in North East Scotland, Shetland dialect retains a high degree of autonomy due to geography and isolation from southern dialects. It has a large amount of unique vocabulary but as there are no standard criteria for distinguishing languages from dialects, whether or not Shetland dialect is a separate
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Shetland dialect also distinguishes between personal pronouns used by parents when speaking to children, old persons speaking to younger ones, or between familiar friends or equals and those used in formal situations and when speaking to superiors. (See
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Shetland dialect usage from oral history recordings and contemporary speech from interviews, the gender system in Shetland dialect was found to be a stable feature of modern dialect usage, and is not tied to use alongside "traditional lexical items".
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Language Contact in the British Isles: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Language Contact in Europe, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1988. Ed. P. Sture Ureland and George Broderick. Linguistische Arbeiten 238. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer. p.
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Consequently, Shetland dialect contains many words of Norn origin. Many of them, if they are not place-names, refer to e.g. seasons, weather, plants, animals, places, food, materials, tools, colours, parts of boats.
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to represent 'missing' English letters has been avoided. On the whole the literary conventions of Modern Scots are applied, if not consistently, the main differences being:
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Nouns in Shetland dialect have grammatical gender beside natural gender. Some nouns which are clearly considered neuter in English are masculine or feminine, such as
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To some extent a bewildering variety of spellings have been used to represent the varied pronunciation of the Shetland dialect varieties. Latterly the use of the
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Times; Jack Renwick, Liam O'Neill, Hayddir Johnson (2007) The harp of twilight: an anthology of poems in English and Shetlandic, Unst Writers Group.
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McColl Millar's internet extension to 'Northern and Insular Scots' 2007, with recordings of regional dialect variants of the Shetland Islands
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Velupillai, Viveka (24 September 2019). "Gendered inanimates in Shetland dialect - comparing pre-oil and contemporary speech".
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Robertson, T.A. & Graham, J.J. (1991) Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect, Lerwick, The Shetland Times Ltd. p. vii.
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Robertson, T.A. & Graham, J.J. (1991) Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect, Lerwick, The Shetland Times Ltd. p. 10.
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Robertson, T.A. & Graham, J.J. (1991) Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect, Lerwick, The Shetland Times Ltd. p. 11.
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Robertson, T.A. & Graham, J.J. (1991) Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect, Lerwick, The Shetland Times Ltd. p. 11.
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Robertson, T.A. & Graham, J.J. (1991) Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect, Lerwick, The Shetland Times Ltd. p. 9.
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Robertson, T.A. & Graham, J.J. (1991) Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect, Lerwick, The Shetland Times Ltd. p. 5.
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Robertson, T.A. & Graham, J.J. (1991) Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect, Lerwick, The Shetland Times Ltd. p. 4.
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Robertson, T.A. & Graham, J.J. (1991) Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect, Lerwick, The Shetland Times Ltd. p. 3.
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Robertson, T.A. & Graham, J.J. (1991) Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect, Lerwick, The Shetland Times Ltd. p. 2.
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Robertson, T.A. & Graham, J.J. (1991) Grammar and Usage of the Shetland Dialect, Lerwick, The Shetland Times Ltd. p. 1.
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The plural of nouns is usually formed by adding -s, as in Standard English. There are a few irregular plurals, such as
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Johnston P. Regional Variation in Jones C. (1997) The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language, Edinburgh p. 485.
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Johnston P. Regional Variation in Jones C. (1997) The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language, Edinburgh p. 469.
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Johnston P. Regional Variation in Jones C. (1997) The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language, Edinburgh p. 469.
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Johnston P. Regional Variation in Jones C. (1997) The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language, Edinburgh p. 485.
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in dialect writing. As is usual in Scots, Shetland dialect puts an article where Standard English would not:
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Knooihuizen, Remco. 2009. "Shetland Scots as a new dialect: phonetic and phonological considerations" in
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Grant, William; Dixon, James Main (1921) Manual of Modern Scots. Cambridge, University Press. p. 96-97.
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Grant, William; Dixon, James Main (1921) Manual of Modern Scots. Cambridge, University Press. p. 115.
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Grant, William; Dixon, James Main (1921) Manual of Modern Scots. Cambridge, University Press. p. 113.
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Grant, William; Dixon, James Main (1921) Manual of Modern Scots. Cambridge, University Press. p. 102.
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Grant, William; Dixon, James Main (1921) Manual of Modern Scots. Cambridge, University Press. p. 79.
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Grant, William; Dixon, James Main (1921) Manual of Modern Scots. Cambridge, University Press. p. 78.
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Catford J.C. (1957) Vowel-Systems of Scots Dialects, Transactions of the Philological Society. p.115
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dialects brought to Shetland from the end of the fifteenth century by Lowland Scots, mainly from
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Graham, J.J. (1993) The Shetland Dictionary, Lerwick, The Shetland Times Ltd. p. xxiv-xxv.
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McColl Millar. 2007. Northern and Insular Scots. Edinburgh: University Press Ltd. p. 39.
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McColl Millar. 2007. Northern and Insular Scots. Edinburgh: University Press Ltd. p. 45.
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McColl Millar. 2007. Northern and Insular Scots. Edinburgh: University Press Ltd. p. 35.
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McColl Millar. 2007. Northern and Insular Scots. Edinburgh: University Press Ltd. p. 37.
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McColl Millar. 2007. Northern and Insular Scots. Edinburgh: University Press Ltd. p. 48.
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McColl Millar. 2007. Northern and Insular Scots. Edinburgh: University Press Ltd. p. 33.
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As is usual in Scots, auxiliary and monosyllabic verbs can be made negative by adding -
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Graham, J.J. (1993) The Shetland Dictionary, Lerwick, The Shetland Times Ltd. p. xxiv.
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Graham, J.J. (1993) The Shetland Dictionary, Lerwick, The Shetland Times Ltd. p. xix.
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of Shetland dialect based on McColl Millar (2007) and Johnston P. (1997). The actual
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SND Introduction - Phonetic Description of Scottish Language and Dialects. p. xl.
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http://www.scotslanguage.com/Scots_Dialects_uid117/Insular_uid118/Insular_uid3422
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SND Introduction - Phonetic Description of Scottish Language and Dialects. p.xl.
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The grammatical structure of Shetland dialect generally follows that of
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3rd ed. (1st ed. 1979, 2nd ed. 1984). Lerwick: The Shetland Times. xxii
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Vowel 8 is generally merged with vowel 4, often realised or before
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Norn-Scots: a complicated language contact situation in Shetland.
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in Shetland dialect (for the additional change of the Scots
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characters. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see
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Example of Shetland speech on the British Library website
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I Hear Dee - Shaetlan on the global map (English version)
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By and large, consonants are pronounced much as in other
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Vol. 13, Issue 3. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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in dialect writing; contrasting with the formal forms
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Vowel 15 may be realised or diphthongised to before
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and respectively, for example and rather than , or
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Retrieved 14 July 2012. 1201:gyaan ta da kirk/da scole in da Simmer 80: 2092:Example of Shetland speech on Youtube 1326:takes the singular form of the verb: 584:language from Scots is much debated. 1584:The Main Dialects of Scots: Insular. 1560:The Main Dialects of Scots: Shetland 1572:The Main Dialects of Scots: Orkney. 1275:(thou), pronounced , often written 1203:-- 'go to church/school in summer' 1146:(vowel 7) are often represented by 13: 1449:where standard English has 'not'. 124:3,500 ("used at home") (2011) 14: 2123: 2053: 897:. The realisation in the cluster 654:may be realised and the initial 2047:English Language and Linguistics 1096:in Scots— which becomes written 878:Vowel 7 may be realised before 683:may differ from place to place. 2032: 2020: 2011: 2002: 1993: 1984: 1975: 1966: 1955: 1946: 1937: 1928: 1917: 1908: 1899: 1856: 1847: 1838: 1829: 1820: 1811: 1802: 1793: 1779: 1770: 1761: 1752: 1743: 1734: 1725: 1716: 1707: 1698: 1689: 1680: 1671: 1658: 1621: 1607: 1597:. 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Norn language
Christine De Luca
[ˈʃe̞tlənd̥]
United Kingdom
Scotland
Scottish people
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
North Sea Germanic
Anglo-Frisian
Anglic
Scots
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Proto-Indo-European
Proto-Germanic
Proto-West Germanic
Proto-English
Northumbrian Old English
Early Middle English
Early Scots
Middle Scots
Modern Scots
Norn
Writing system
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ISO 639-3
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