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Preferred term

nrnNorn  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Norn is an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in Shetland and Orkney, off the north coast of mainland Scotland, and in Caithness. After the islands were pledged to Scotland by Norway in the 15th century, it was gradually replaced by Scots and on the mainland by Scottish Gaelic.

Entry terms

  • Norn language

ISO 639-3 code

  • nrn

Notation

  • nrn

In other languages

  • Norne

    French

  • Norn

    German

  • Lingua norn

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Idioma norn

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/nrn

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