Orcadian dialect

Orcadian
Orcadian
Orkney Scots
Scots
Native to	United Kingdom
Region	Orkney
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

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

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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]

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