Norn language

Norn
norn
Native to	Scotland
Region	Northern Isles and Caithness
Extinct	c.1850, with the death of Walter Sutherland possibly after 1932
Revival	exist
Language family	Indo-European Germanic North Germanic West Scandinavian Insular Scandinavian Norn
Early forms	Old Norse Old West Norse
Writing system	Younger Futhark (original) Old Norse alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nrn
Linguist List	nrn
Glottolog	oldn1246
Linguasphere	52-AAA-ac
Languages of Scotland around the early 15th century, based on placename evidence   Norn   Scottish Gaelic   Scots
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Norn is an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland) off the north coast of mainland Scotland and in Caithness in the far north of the Scottish mainland. After Orkney and Shetland were pledged to Scotland by Norway in 1468–69, it was gradually replaced by Scots. Norn is thought to have become extinct around 1850, after the death of Walter Sutherland, the language's last known speaker, though there are claims the language persisted as late as 1932.^[1]