Shetlandic, usually referred to as (
auld or
braid)
Shetland by native speakers, and referred to as
Modern Shetlandic Scots (MSS) by linguists, is spoken in
Shetland, to the north of mainland
Scotland and is, like
Orcadian, a
dialect of
Insular Scots. It is derived from the
Scots dialects brought to Shetland from the end of the fifteenth century by Lowland Scots, mainly from
Fife and
Lothian, with a degree of Scandinavian influence from the
Norn language, which was spoken on the islands until the late 18th century.