There has been considerable debate about when Norn, the Scandinavian language formerly spoken in Orkney and Shetland, died as a community language in the islands. Arguments thus far have focused primarily on second-hand commentary from travel and census reports, sparking disputes about the credibility...
Norn was a North Germanic language spoken in Shetland (Hjatland), Orkney and Caithness in mainland Scotland until the 19th century. Norn descended from Old Norse and was brought to Scotland and the islands of the North Atlantic by settlers from western parts of Norway from about 800 AD. The...
Danish is the official language in Denmark, and a co-official language with Faroese in the Faroe Islands. It is the statutory national working language in Greenland, and the statutory language of provincial identity in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It was the official language of Norway until abo...
Wales (1996: 138) does not go as far as suggesting any direct transfer, but opens up to the possibility of 'influence from either Celtic or Norse languages'. 'I'll cross dat brig whin I come til him': grammatical gender in the Orkney and Shetland dialects of Scots More results ► Th...
English as a global language is caused by its powerful speakers;though facing many difficulties and challenges,English remains its position as global language;with the development of information technology,World Standard Spoken English will be produced due to frequent communication among varieties of ...
Old Norse language, classical North Germanic language used from roughly 1150 to 1350. It is the literary language of the Icelandic sagas, skaldic poems, and Eddas. The term Old Norse embraces Old Norwegian as well as Old Icelandic, but it is sometimes us
The expansion of Nordic peoples in the Viking Age (c. 750–1050) led to the establishment of Scandinavian speech in Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, the Shetland Islands, the Orkney Islands, the Hebrides, and the Isle of Man, as well as parts of Ireland, Scotland, England, France ...
Find out about the history of the ancient Scottish language, learn about Gaelic in the 21st century and explore the landscape which inspired the language.
- the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland Nordic, North Germanic, Scandinavian language, Scandinavian, Norse Germanic, Germanic language - a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Sca...
1.What is the geographical position of the UK? The UK?s geographical position is marked by latitude 50°N in Southern England and by latitude 60°across the Shetland Islands off the northwest coast of Scotland. The distance from the southern coast of England to the most northern point of th...