#minoritylanguage — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #minoritylanguage, aggregated by home.social.
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A video of William Neill from “Poets of the South-West”, created for Dumfries & Galloway Education Department in the 1980s & online via Hugh McMillan. Neill reads some of his poetry & discusses his use of Gaelic & Scots
4/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opff3zwIAek
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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A video of William Neill from “Poets of the South-West”, created for Dumfries & Galloway Education Department in the 1980s & online via Hugh McMillan. Neill reads some of his poetry & discusses his use of Gaelic & Scots
4/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opff3zwIAek
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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A video of William Neill from “Poets of the South-West”, created for Dumfries & Galloway Education Department in the 1980s & online via Hugh McMillan. Neill reads some of his poetry & discusses his use of Gaelic & Scots
4/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opff3zwIAek
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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A video of William Neill from “Poets of the South-West”, created for Dumfries & Galloway Education Department in the 1980s & online via Hugh McMillan. Neill reads some of his poetry & discusses his use of Gaelic & Scots
4/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opff3zwIAek
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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A video of William Neill from “Poets of the South-West”, created for Dumfries & Galloway Education Department in the 1980s & online via Hugh McMillan. Neill reads some of his poetry & discusses his use of Gaelic & Scots
4/4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opff3zwIAek
#Scottish #literature #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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Chuala mise gum b’urrain dhaibh o shean
coiseachd fo chraobhan bho Chluaidh gu Solabhaigh;
a nisd chaneil a leithid de chraobhan againn …
ach pairèid reiseamaid ghiuthas air gach sliabh.—Uilleam Nèill, “Craobhan”
3/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #minoritylanguage
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Chuala mise gum b’urrain dhaibh o shean
coiseachd fo chraobhan bho Chluaidh gu Solabhaigh;
a nisd chaneil a leithid de chraobhan againn …
ach pairèid reiseamaid ghiuthas air gach sliabh.—Uilleam Nèill, “Craobhan”
3/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #minoritylanguage
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Chuala mise gum b’urrain dhaibh o shean
coiseachd fo chraobhan bho Chluaidh gu Solabhaigh;
a nisd chaneil a leithid de chraobhan againn …
ach pairèid reiseamaid ghiuthas air gach sliabh.—Uilleam Nèill, “Craobhan”
3/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #minoritylanguage
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Chuala mise gum b’urrain dhaibh o shean
coiseachd fo chraobhan bho Chluaidh gu Solabhaigh;
a nisd chaneil a leithid de chraobhan againn …
ach pairèid reiseamaid ghiuthas air gach sliabh.—Uilleam Nèill, “Craobhan”
3/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #minoritylanguage
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Chuala mise gum b’urrain dhaibh o shean
coiseachd fo chraobhan bho Chluaidh gu Solabhaigh;
a nisd chaneil a leithid de chraobhan againn …
ach pairèid reiseamaid ghiuthas air gach sliabh.—Uilleam Nèill, “Craobhan”
3/4
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #minoritylanguage
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Yirdins are no for me, I was never ane
tae wear a tile hat and a claw-hemmer coat;
I was never ane
tae staund aboot a cauld and clartie grave
wi een like a wannert stot…—William Neill, “A Lament for Alba Moroon”
2/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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Yirdins are no for me, I was never ane
tae wear a tile hat and a claw-hemmer coat;
I was never ane
tae staund aboot a cauld and clartie grave
wi een like a wannert stot…—William Neill, “A Lament for Alba Moroon”
2/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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Yirdins are no for me, I was never ane
tae wear a tile hat and a claw-hemmer coat;
I was never ane
tae staund aboot a cauld and clartie grave
wi een like a wannert stot…—William Neill, “A Lament for Alba Moroon”
2/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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Yirdins are no for me, I was never ane
tae wear a tile hat and a claw-hemmer coat;
I was never ane
tae staund aboot a cauld and clartie grave
wi een like a wannert stot…—William Neill, “A Lament for Alba Moroon”
2/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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Yirdins are no for me, I was never ane
tae wear a tile hat and a claw-hemmer coat;
I was never ane
tae staund aboot a cauld and clartie grave
wi een like a wannert stot…—William Neill, “A Lament for Alba Moroon”
2/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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Escape to the tailored suit,
the pan-loaf speech,
the benefits of higher education…—“Kailyard & After” by William Neill (1922–2010), b. #OTD, 22 Feb. He wrote poetry in all three of Scotland’s languages & was an active campaigner for Scots & Gaelic
A 🎂 🧵
1/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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Escape to the tailored suit,
the pan-loaf speech,
the benefits of higher education…—“Kailyard & After” by William Neill (1922–2010), b. #OTD, 22 Feb. He wrote poetry in all three of Scotland’s languages & was an active campaigner for Scots & Gaelic
A 🎂 🧵
1/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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Escape to the tailored suit,
the pan-loaf speech,
the benefits of higher education…—“Kailyard & After” by William Neill (1922–2010), b. #OTD, 22 Feb. He wrote poetry in all three of Scotland’s languages & was an active campaigner for Scots & Gaelic
A 🎂 🧵
1/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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Escape to the tailored suit,
the pan-loaf speech,
the benefits of higher education…—“Kailyard & After” by William Neill (1922–2010), b. #OTD, 22 Feb. He wrote poetry in all three of Scotland’s languages & was an active campaigner for Scots & Gaelic
A 🎂 🧵
1/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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Escape to the tailored suit,
the pan-loaf speech,
the benefits of higher education…—“Kailyard & After” by William Neill (1922–2010), b. #OTD, 22 Feb. He wrote poetry in all three of Scotland’s languages & was an active campaigner for Scots & Gaelic
A 🎂 🧵
1/4
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”
—Alastair Cole: How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas
https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660
#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO #fishing #fishingindustry #Hebrides #language #minoritylanguage
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“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”
—Alastair Cole: How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas
https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660
#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO #fishing #fishingindustry #Hebrides #language #minoritylanguage
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“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”
—Alastair Cole: How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas
https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660
#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO #fishing #fishingindustry #Hebrides #language #minoritylanguage
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“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”
—Alastair Cole: How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas
https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660
#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO #fishing #fishingindustry #Hebrides #language #minoritylanguage
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“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”
—Alastair Cole: How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas
https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660
#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO #fishing #fishingindustry #Hebrides #language #minoritylanguage
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I mind when I was a bairnie hou ma mither
brocht out ae day a kist o skinklan things,
ferlies I thocht them, ilk mair rare nor anither,
aa kind o gowdies, stanes and chains and rings…—Douglas Young, “Thesaurus Paleo-Scoticus”
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #language #minoritylanguage #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO
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I mind when I was a bairnie hou ma mither
brocht out ae day a kist o skinklan things,
ferlies I thocht them, ilk mair rare nor anither,
aa kind o gowdies, stanes and chains and rings…—Douglas Young, “Thesaurus Paleo-Scoticus”
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #language #minoritylanguage #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO
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I mind when I was a bairnie hou ma mither
brocht out ae day a kist o skinklan things,
ferlies I thocht them, ilk mair rare nor anither,
aa kind o gowdies, stanes and chains and rings…—Douglas Young, “Thesaurus Paleo-Scoticus”
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #language #minoritylanguage #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO
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I mind when I was a bairnie hou ma mither
brocht out ae day a kist o skinklan things,
ferlies I thocht them, ilk mair rare nor anither,
aa kind o gowdies, stanes and chains and rings…—Douglas Young, “Thesaurus Paleo-Scoticus”
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #language #minoritylanguage #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO
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I mind when I was a bairnie hou ma mither
brocht out ae day a kist o skinklan things,
ferlies I thocht them, ilk mair rare nor anither,
aa kind o gowdies, stanes and chains and rings…—Douglas Young, “Thesaurus Paleo-Scoticus”
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/a-kist-o-skinlan-things/
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #poem #poetry #language #minoritylanguage #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO
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Nam sheasamh thall aig geat a’ phreiridh,
feur glan fom bhotannan,
lamhan fuar nam phocaidean,
faileadh an dup
gu fann
gu neo-chinnteach
a’ nochdadh mu mo chuinnlean…—Anne Frater, “Aig an Fhaing”
Today, 21 February, is UNESCO International Mother Language Day
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/mother-language
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #language #minoritylanguage #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO
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Nam sheasamh thall aig geat a’ phreiridh,
feur glan fom bhotannan,
lamhan fuar nam phocaidean,
faileadh an dup
gu fann
gu neo-chinnteach
a’ nochdadh mu mo chuinnlean…—Anne Frater, “Aig an Fhaing”
Today, 21 February, is UNESCO International Mother Language Day
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/mother-language
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #language #minoritylanguage #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO
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Nam sheasamh thall aig geat a’ phreiridh,
feur glan fom bhotannan,
lamhan fuar nam phocaidean,
faileadh an dup
gu fann
gu neo-chinnteach
a’ nochdadh mu mo chuinnlean…—Anne Frater, “Aig an Fhaing”
Today, 21 February, is UNESCO International Mother Language Day
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/mother-language
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #language #minoritylanguage #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO
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Nam sheasamh thall aig geat a’ phreiridh,
feur glan fom bhotannan,
lamhan fuar nam phocaidean,
faileadh an dup
gu fann
gu neo-chinnteach
a’ nochdadh mu mo chuinnlean…—Anne Frater, “Aig an Fhaing”
Today, 21 February, is UNESCO International Mother Language Day
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/mother-language
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #language #minoritylanguage #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO
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Nam sheasamh thall aig geat a’ phreiridh,
feur glan fom bhotannan,
lamhan fuar nam phocaidean,
faileadh an dup
gu fann
gu neo-chinnteach
a’ nochdadh mu mo chuinnlean…—Anne Frater, “Aig an Fhaing”
Today, 21 February, is UNESCO International Mother Language Day
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/mother-language
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #language #minoritylanguage #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO
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“Just as, after reading Heinlein, a door is no longer quite the same thing, so, after reading DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA, a dialect is no longer quite the same thing either”
—Cat Fitzpatrick reviews Harry Josephine Giles’s DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for @StrangeHorizons
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/deep-wheel-orcadia-by-harry-josephine-giles/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #poetry #sciencefiction #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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“Just as, after reading Heinlein, a door is no longer quite the same thing, so, after reading DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA, a dialect is no longer quite the same thing either”
—Cat Fitzpatrick reviews Harry Josephine Giles’s DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for @StrangeHorizons
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/deep-wheel-orcadia-by-harry-josephine-giles/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #poetry #sciencefiction #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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“Just as, after reading Heinlein, a door is no longer quite the same thing, so, after reading DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA, a dialect is no longer quite the same thing either”
—Cat Fitzpatrick reviews Harry Josephine Giles’s DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for @StrangeHorizons
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/deep-wheel-orcadia-by-harry-josephine-giles/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #poetry #sciencefiction #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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“Just as, after reading Heinlein, a door is no longer quite the same thing, so, after reading DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA, a dialect is no longer quite the same thing either”
—Cat Fitzpatrick reviews Harry Josephine Giles’s DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for @StrangeHorizons
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/deep-wheel-orcadia-by-harry-josephine-giles/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #poetry #sciencefiction #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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“Just as, after reading Heinlein, a door is no longer quite the same thing, so, after reading DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA, a dialect is no longer quite the same thing either”
—Cat Fitzpatrick reviews Harry Josephine Giles’s DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA for @StrangeHorizons
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/deep-wheel-orcadia-by-harry-josephine-giles/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #poetry #sciencefiction #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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In 2019, Harry Josephine Gilesl’s science-fiction verse novel DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA was a work-in-progress, & we were delighted to feature an extract. Published in 2021, DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year
7/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #sciencefiction #poetry #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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In 2019, Harry Josephine Gilesl’s science-fiction verse novel DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA was a work-in-progress, & we were delighted to feature an extract. Published in 2021, DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year
7/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #sciencefiction #poetry #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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In 2019, Harry Josephine Gilesl’s science-fiction verse novel DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA was a work-in-progress, & we were delighted to feature an extract. Published in 2021, DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year
7/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #sciencefiction #poetry #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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In 2019, Harry Josephine Gilesl’s science-fiction verse novel DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA was a work-in-progress, & we were delighted to feature an extract. Published in 2021, DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year
7/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #sciencefiction #poetry #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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In 2019, Harry Josephine Gilesl’s science-fiction verse novel DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA was a work-in-progress, & we were delighted to feature an extract. Published in 2021, DEEP WHEEL ORCADIA won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Book of the Year
7/8
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #sciencefiction #poetry #scifi #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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The New Orkney Language Literature
Harry Josephine Giles looks at
“the minoritisation of the language, perpetuated not just through literary snobbery but also through an education system that beat out Orcadian with physical force”
& a literary rebirth
6/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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The New Orkney Language Literature
Harry Josephine Giles looks at
“the minoritisation of the language, perpetuated not just through literary snobbery but also through an education system that beat out Orcadian with physical force”
& a literary rebirth
6/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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The New Orkney Language Literature
Harry Josephine Giles looks at
“the minoritisation of the language, perpetuated not just through literary snobbery but also through an education system that beat out Orcadian with physical force”
& a literary rebirth
6/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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The New Orkney Language Literature
Harry Josephine Giles looks at
“the minoritisation of the language, perpetuated not just through literary snobbery but also through an education system that beat out Orcadian with physical force”
& a literary rebirth
6/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage
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The New Orkney Language Literature
Harry Josephine Giles looks at
“the minoritisation of the language, perpetuated not just through literary snobbery but also through an education system that beat out Orcadian with physical force”
& a literary rebirth
6/8
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2019/07/the-new-orkney-language-literature/
#Scottish #literature #Orkney #Orcadian #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguage