Shetland dialect
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shetland-dialect-189-11761767
title:
Shetland dialect
text:
Shetland dialect is a dialect of Insular Scots spoken in Shetland, an archipelago to the north of mainland Scotland. It is derived from the Scots dialects brought to Shetland from the end of the fifteenth century by Lowland Scots, mainly from Fife and Lothian, with a degree of Norse influence from the Norn language, which is an extinct North Germanic language spoken on the islands until the late 18th century. Consequently, Shetland dialect contains many words of Norn origin. Many of them, if the
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Dialect of Scots
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland_dialect
date created:
2006-06-03T18:52:25Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T12:53:29Z
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13
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