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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...