Orcadian dialect

Orcadian
Orcadian
Orkney Scots
Scots
Native to	United Kingdom
Region	Scotland
Ethnicity	Scottish people
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic Scots Insular Scots Orcadian; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Proto-West Germanic Proto-English Northumbrian Old English Early Middle English Early Scots Middle Scots Modern Scots ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	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.

Due to the influence of Orkney fur traders working for the Hudson's Bay Company in early Canada, a creole language called Bungi developed, with substratal influence from Scottish English, Orcadian Scots, Norn, Scottish Gaelic, French, Cree, and Saulteaux Ojibwe. As of 2013, Bungi is thought to have very few if any speakers and is potentially extinct.

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".