| Orcadian | |
| Also Known As: | Orkney Scots |
| States: | Scotland |
| Region: | Orkney Islands |
| Familycolor: | Indo-European |
| Fam2: | Germanic |
| Fam3: | West Germanic |
| Fam4: | North Sea Germanic |
| Fam5: | Anglo-Frisian |
| Fam6: | Anglic |
| Fam7: | Scots |
| Fam8: | Insular Scots |
| Ancestor: | Northumbrian Old English |
| Ancestor2: | Early Middle English |
| Ancestor3: | Early Scots |
| Ancestor4: | Middle Scots |
| Ancestor5: | Scots |
| Glotto: | 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] 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]