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D 42, northern insular lowland

shetland dialect, or shetlandic

this is the scots dialect of the shetland islands. it has a lot of influence from norn, the north germanic language that used to be spoken on the northern isles.

examples

shetland forWirds on youtube has a few videos in shetlandic.

resources

the shetland forWirds website has a lot of documentation and recordings of the dialect.

i hear dee is a website that documents and encourages folk to use shetland dialect.