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LINKS: Shetland Dialect (incl. NORN words)

Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:39 am

A few Links to webpages that include Shetland Dialect containing Norn words.

Shetland Dictionary (Shetlopedia):
http://sh.shetlanddictionary.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

SHETLAND FORWIRDS (Shetland Dialect incl. Dictionary):
http://www.shetlanddialect.org.uk/

Here is a link to an article about Norn influence on Shetlandic and Orcadian dialects: http://www.scribd.com/doc/281361/AKullNorn07

If you go to the following links, you can scroll down and find out a lot about Shetland incl. Shetland Dialect:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=SHETLAND


These are all texts that can be downloaded in PDF and other formats.

Just scroll down, and many of the links will include linguistics, placenames etc.



Here are some linguistic links that you get if you scroll down on that link:

An etymological glossary of the Shetland & Orkney dialect : with some derivations of names of places in Shetland (1866) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924026356711

Examples of printed folk-lore concerning the Orkney & Shetland islands (1903) http://www.archive.org/details/examplesprinted00thomgoog

The English dialect grammar, comprising the dialects of England, of the Shetland and Orkney islands, and of those parts of Scotland, Ireland & Wales where English is habitually spoken (1905) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924026612600
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