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Is time finally running out for Orkney's unique dialect?

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Spotlight on Orcadian as language champion appointed

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Applications open for new role that will celebrate the Orcadian dialect

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The richness of the Orcadian dialect will be celebrated in a new role for an island-based writer.
Applications are now open for the Orkney Scriever residency during the centenary of Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown.
The post is hosted by the National Library of Scotland which is teaming up with Orkney Library and Archive to give a writer the opportunity to develop creative work in Orcadian and acknowledge the islands as a stronghold for the Scots language. ....

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