Orcadian dialect

Orcadian
Orcadian
Orkney Scots
Scots
Native to	United Kingdom
Region	Scotland
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, itself a dialect of the Scots language. It is derived from Lowland Scots, with a degree of Norwegian influence from the Norn language.^[1]

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]

^ Grant, Jeff. "The Orcadian Dialect" (PDF). Core. Hastings, New Zealand: 111 – via core.ac.uk.
^ "Bungee: A language unique to Canada". Language Portal of Canada. Government of Canada. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
^ Bakker, Peter; Papen, Robert A. (1996). "125. Languages of the Metis". In Wurm, Stephen Adolphe; Mühlhäusler, Peter; Tryon, Darrell T. (eds.). Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and the Americas. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 1177–78. ISBN 9783110134179. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
^ Bakker, Peter; Papen, Robert A. "Michif and other languages of the Canadian Métis". Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture. Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
^ Blain, Eleanor M. (1989). The Bungee Dialect of the Red River Settlement (MA thesis). Winnipeg: University of Manitoba. p. 14. hdl:1993/3572.
^ "Bungee: A language unique to Canada". Language Portal of Canada. Government of Canada. Archived from the original on 10 August 2014. Retrieved 10 August 2020.
^ Blain, Eleanor M. (14 December 2013) [16 June 2008]. "Bungi". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
^ "Deep Wheel Orcadia by Harry Josephine Giles — 9781529066609". Pan Macmillan. Retrieved 10 October 2021.