Meanings
- Synonym of Shetlandic.
Today Scots is made up of several dialects including Doric, Lallans, spoken in southern Scotland, Shaetlan, used in Shetland, and Ullans spoken by Ulster Scots.
2002 September 30, Gillian Harris, “Scots pupils can use 'mither tung' in the classroom”, in The Times, number 67569, page 122 more examples
Entrants must undertake compulsory vocational training courses from the University of the Highlands and Islands available in both Gaelic and Shaetlan, taught by retiring crofters.
2005, David Green, “Crofting – Looking to the Future”, in Crofting People and Politics: Five Decades of the Crofters Commission, Argyll Publishing, Crofters Commission, →ISBN, page 20The recognition comes after the local language was given its own ISO code by SIL Global, the organisation that handles the international Ethnologue database has been tasked with the handling of international language ISO codes. There are more than 7,000 languages in 242 countries recognised in the database, and Shaetlan is now one of them.
2025 October 15, Hans J. Marter, “Shaetlan receives full recognition as a language”, in Shetland News, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2025Synonyms: Shetlandic
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Shetlandic.
Origin
- sczShaetlan
- sczShaetlan
- EnglishShaetlan
Borrowed from Shetland Shaetlan.
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Shaetlan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shaetlan
“Shaetlan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shaetlan. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Shaetlan,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Shaetlan.
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