norn language

  1. AHC: Keep the Norn Language Alive

    Okay, so Norn was a North Germanic language closely related to the Faroese and Norwegian languages and slightly more distantly related to Icelandic, Danish, and Swedish that was spoken in the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland) off the North Coast of Scotland (yes, I am copying the wikipedia...
  2. WI: Orkney and Shetland stay linguistically Scandinavian into C20

    This is a linguistic map of Scotland from the Fifteenth Century. As you may have guessed, Blue is Gaelic and Yellow is English/Scots. But you may be wondering what orange is? Orange is Norn, the Scandinavian language of Orkney and Shetland, spoken there ever since the Vikings first took over...
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