Shetland accent

[Graham]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfzaa0Ly1kk
The womens accent, Probably difficult for people outside of Scotland to understand. :D

can anyone see this video?, it comes up wae error on the preview

[Grumpy Cat]

She sounds like she is speaking a Scandinavian language.

It's too bad the language of the Shetlands, Norn, died out, though.

[Absinthe]

The first woman speaks english?! :eek:

[Treffie]

I managed to understand about 3/4 of it. Is this the most difficult accent in Scotland to understand, Fionnlagh?

[Graham]

All of them are easy to me, but people outside of Scotland struggle with the glasweigan accent (speak through the nose). Fife can be funny, daughter and doctor can sound the same a've noticed. Edinburgh can be well spoken, but then ye've got Leith and other rough areas there. There's quite a few small variations in places.

[Skandi]

Try Doric, that is no fun Shetland is easy enough, but then I came across plenty of them at uni. Glaswegian I dislike intensely and that probably hinders my attempts at understanding them.

[Beorn]

Fife can be funny, daughter and doctor can sound the same a've noticed.

Would you be able to write phonetically 'daughter' and 'doctor' for me? :)

[Graham]

it would be like doachter, ch like loch, oa like oat . words like night and light are nicht and licht :D ..My accent sounds kind weegie and edinburgh lol, Thrymheim you wouldnae like it :P. Doric sounds funny :D

[Treffie]

I'm finding all these Scots accents very intriguing :p

Here's the Doric accent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr0erVo3EP8

[Hrolf Kraki]

Scotland is bad ass. What are some other Scottish dialects and where are they spoken? I´ve always wanted to visit the Shetland Islands. :)

[Tarja]

Speaking starts at 1.50 - I love Shetlandic, think it sounds great. And I only struggle to understand about 5% of it. :D
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[Graham]

Great music too. Shetland fiddle. I understand it easy. Just have to slow down to the pace, like doric.

[Pallantides]

Speaking starts at 1.50 - I love Shetlandic, think it sounds great. And I only struggle to understand about 5% of it. :D
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The accent remind me a bit of when Icelandics speak English

[Caismeachd]

I can hardly understand it. Was similar with my relatives in Fife. Could not understand them at first when I last visited.

Pallentides. I think the intonation of Scottish accents in general have strong influence from Norse language but it's even more pronounced in Shetland islanders. If you take Irish accent as influenced by Gaelic language, Scottish accent is much different and the closest difference is in Norse.