Roy Mullay News Today

IN TODAY’s instalment of the I Hear Dee project’s History in a Wird series, we explore the origins of the Up Helly Aa season of fire festivals. Run by linguist Dr Viveka Velupillai and native Shaetlan speakers Roy Mullay, Julie Dennison and Andrew Blance, the I Hear...

THE I Hear Dee language project was formed to protect and promote the Shaetlan language, a variant of Scots native to the archipelago. The project…

IT IS Christmas and, appropriately, Shetland language project I Hear Dee is delving into the origins of the word Yül, the 12 days of festivities which is much, much older than all our current traditions and probably dates back to pre-Christian times. For us this is a good way...

GUIDE sheets and children’s quizzes are now available in local dialect at the historic Jarlshof settlement thanks to a new partnership with I Hear Dee. Staff at Jarlshof operator Historic Environment Scotland (HES) worked with the language group to translate the visitor...

Shetland Language Plan aims to make 'Shaetlan' recognised as a language in its own right that people can learn

IN THE latest instalment of the I Hear Dee project’s History in a Wird series, we feature the origins of the Shetland word truss, meaning “(useless) odds and ends; scraps; scrapings; rubbish”. Run by linguists Dr Viveka Velupillai and native Shaetlan speakers Roy Mullay,...

Project aims to reflect local language as it is spoken today in different parts of Shetland

IN THE next instalment of the I Hear Dee project’s History in a Wird series, we feature the origins of the Shetland word for otter. The word dratsi is an extremely rare example of a former fishermen’s taboo work entering regular vocabulary. Run by linguists Dr Viveka...

INTERNATIONAL praise has poured in for the world’s first bilingual primer of the grammar of the Shaetlan language.

THE WORLD’s first ever bilingual grammatical description of the local language – Shaetlan – has just been published by a group of enthusiasts. The 119-page primer, written by Dr Viveka Velupillai and Roy Mullay, is very much seen a working document – it is available for...