Orcadian dialect or

Orcadian Orcadian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Orkney ** Orcadians Orcadians, also known as Orkneymen, are an ethnic group native to the Orkney Islands, who speak an Orcadian dialect of the Scots language, a West Germanic language ...

Scots is a

dialect A dialect is a Variety (linguistics), variety of language spoken by a particular group of people. This may include dominant and standard language, standardized varieties as well as Vernacular language, vernacular, unwritten, or non-standardize ...

Insular Scots Insular Scots comprises varieties of Lowland Scots generally subdivided into: * Shetland dialect * Orcadian dialect Both dialects share much Norn vocabulary, Shetland dialect more so, than does any other Scots dialect, perhaps because they w ...

, itself a dialect of the Scots language. It is derived from Lowland Scots, with a degree of Norwegian influence from the

Norn language Norn is an extinct North Germanic languages, North Germanic language that was spoken in the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland) off the north coast of mainland Scotland and in Caithness in the far north of the Scottish mainland. After Orkney and ...

. Due to the influence of Orkney

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rs working for the

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in early Canada, a

creole language A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable form of contact language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fl ...

called Bungi developed, with substratal influence from

Scottish English Scottish English is the set of varieties of the English language spoken in Scotland. The transregional, standardised variety is called Scottish Standard English or Standard Scottish English (SSE). Scottish Standard English may be defined ...

, Orcadian Scots, Norn,

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, and

Saulteaux The Saulteaux (pronounced , or in imitation of the French pronunciation , also written Salteaux, Saulteau and Ojibwa ethnonyms, other variants), otherwise known as the Plains Ojibwe, are a First Nations in Canada, First Nations band governm ...

Ojibwe The Ojibwe (; Ojibwe writing systems#Ojibwe syllabics, syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: ''Ojibweg'' ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (''Ojibwewaki'' ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Great Lakes region and the Great Plains, n ...

. Bungi is thought to have very few if any speakers and is potentially extinct. In 2021, Orcadian poet

Harry Josephine Giles Harry Josephine Giles (born 1986) is a British writer, singer, and poet who previously lived on Orkney. In 2022, they won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for their novel '' Deep Wheel Orcadia''. Personal life Giles is non-binary. They were broug ...

released a science fiction

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, ''

Deep Wheel Orcadia ''Deep Wheel Orcadia'' is a science-fiction novel by Harry Josephine Giles. It is a verse novel written in the Orcadian dialect of the Scots language in parallel with an English translation. The book won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award. It was pub ...

'', in Orcadian Scots with parallel translation into standard English, described by their publisher as a "unique adventure in minority language poetry".

References

External links

The Orkney Dictionary

{{Orkney-stub Culture of Orkney Scots dialects

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