Contents:
1. Language
Pronunciation - a guide to Shetlandic pronunciation
Contents:
1. Language
Pronunciation
- a guide to Shetlandic pronunciation
Spelling - the spelling system used on this site.
Grammar - grammatical notes.
2.
Texts
The texts are provided in two forms - one using
frames, and a no-frames version in case your browser has trouble with
the frames version.
Frames Versions
Da
Tree He-Goats Groff - an introductory text with notes
illustrating some features of Shetlandic.
Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe - an allegorical tale in Shetlandic, with notes and glossary.
Da Liver Drink - a narrative poem in Shetlandic, with notes and glossary.
Da Odyssey 1-75 - a Shetlandic translation of the beginning of the Odyssey
Guid Unkens efter Mark - Mark's Gospel in Shetlandic
Order Guid Unkens efter Mark as a
printed booklet.
No-Frames Versions
Da
Tree He-Goats Groff - an introductory text with notes
illustrating some features of Shetlandic.
Sheltie
Prattle an da Blue Lowe - an allegorical tale in Shetlandic.
Sheltie - Notes - notes and glossary to
Sheltie Prattle.
Da Liver Drink - a narrative poem in
Shetlandic.
Liver - Translation - a
translation of Da Liver Drink.
Liver
- Notes and Glossary - notes and glossary to Da Liver Drink.
Da Odyssey 1-75 - a Shetlandic translation of the beginning of the Odyssey
Guid Unkens efter Mark - Mark's Gospel in
Shetlandic
Unkens - Glossary - Glossary
to Guid Unkens efter Mark
3. Articles
Shaetlan is Daed - Lang Live Dialect - paper given at the Dialect '04 conference. (NEW)
Aboot Shaetlan Spellin - thoughts on spelling submitted to Shetland dialect group after Dialect '04. (NEW)
Shetlandic in a Context of Linguistic and Cultural Identity - a paper on Shetlandic.
Shaetlan Spellin - Shetlandic orthography
issues (in Shetlandic)
Some
Characteristics of the Shetlandic Vowel System - an academic-type
article on the Shetlandic vowel system.
What is Shetlandic - nomenclature issues.
Shetlandic, Scots and Norn - the origins of Shetlandic.