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Languages Forum holds conference in Orkney

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The Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster held its triennial conference last week at Orkney College in Kirkwall. The conference heard papers on attitudes to Scots in Midlothian, dialect and identity in Shetland and immigration and dialect in Orkney.

A range of speakers from Scotland and overseas joined in the various sessions and discussions. Retiring chair of the Forum, Derrick McClure, described the conference as a, “great success”. Speaking after the conference had ended, McClure said, “We listened to some excellent papers this week, in particular about the study of language and dialect in the Northern Isles.”

Speakers came from as far away as Canada, Andalusia, Norway, Austria, Sweden and Germany.

Organisers plan to make papers from the conference available on the FRLSU web site either at the end of this year or beginning of next. Dr Robert Millar of Aberdeen University succeeds Derrick McClure as Forum chair.

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