Orcadian dialect

Orcadian dialect or Orcadian Scots is a dialect of Insular Scots, itself a dialect of the Scots language. It is derived from Lowland Scots, with a degree of Norwegian influence from the Norn language.^[1]

Orcadian
Orkney Scots
Scots
Native to	United Kingdom
Region	Scotland
Ethnicity	Scottish people
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic Scots Insular Scots Orcadian
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Proto-West Germanic Proto-English Northumbrian Old English Early Middle English Early Scots Middle Scots Modern Scots
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	orkn1236
IETF	sco-u-sd-gbork

Due to the influence of Orkney fur traders working for the Hudson's Bay Company in early Canada,^[2] a creole language called Bungi developed, with substratal influence from Scottish English, Orcadian Scots, Norn, Scottish Gaelic, French, Cree, and Saulteaux Ojibwe.^[3][4][5] As of 2013,^[update] Bungi is thought to have very few if any speakers and is potentially extinct.^[6][7]

In 2021, Orcadian poet Harry Josephine Giles released a science fiction verse novel, Deep Wheel Orcadia, in Orcadian Scots with parallel translation into standard English, described by their publisher as a "unique adventure in minority language poetry".^[8]

See also

• Bungi dialect – Moribund English dialect of Manitoba, Canada
• Shetland dialect – Dialect of Scots

References

1. Grant, Jeff. "The Orcadian Dialect" (PDF). Core. Hastings, New Zealand: 111 – via core.ac.uk.
2. "Bungee: A language unique to Canada". Language Portal of Canada. Government of Canada. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
3. Bakker, Peter; Papen, Robert A. (1996). "125. Languages of the Metis". In Wurm, Stephen Adolphe; Mühlhäusler, Peter; Tryon, Darrell T. (eds.). Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 1177–78. ISBN 9783110134179. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
4. Bakker, Peter; Papen, Robert A. "Michif and other languages of the Canadian Métis". Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture. Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
5. Blain, Eleanor M. (1989). The Bungee Dialect of the Red River Settlement (MA thesis). Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. p. 14. hdl:1993/3572.
6. "Bungee: A language unique to Canada". Language Portal of Canada. Government of Canada. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
7. Blain, Eleanor M. (14 December 2013) [16 June 2008]. "Bungi". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
8. "Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles — 9781529066609". Pan Macmillan. Retrieved 10 October 2021.

External links

• The Orkney Dictionary
• Orkneyjar.com