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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...
SHETLAND NEWS has teamed up with the I Hear Dee project to help spread the word about their work on promoting the local language. Run by linguists Dr Viveka Velupillai and native Shaetlan speakers Roy Mullay, Julie Dennison and Andrew Blance, the I Hear Dee project aims to...
A SCOTS version of smash hit game Wordle has been created - in a bid to promote a rare dialect spoken in Shetland.Thousands of players from around the
A NEW project aimed at promoting one of the rarest varieties of Scots has taken the world by storm, with thousands of players across six continents.
A PROJECT seeking to put Shetland dialect on the map globally has harnessed its distinctive linguistics to create a localised version of the viral word game Wordle. The small team behind I Hear Dee – which aims to document Shaetlan as “a language variety in its own right”...