De wir a dratsi inna da gairden dastreen! Existentials in Shaetlan.

The origin of the expression “black affrontit“.

You can’t lean on a gaet!

The Standard English "th" sounds are very rare, found only in ca 7.5% of the languages of the world.

We live in Shetland, not “the Shetlands“!

Dat dat! Reactive responses in Shaetlan.

Shaetlan bismer comes from Ottoman Turkish batman.

In Shaetlan the demonstrative pronouns remain invariant.

Shaetlan has a 3-way contrast system with dis / yun / dat.

We line IN Shetland, not “on“!

He’s a starvation out there!

In Shaetlan relative clauses expressed with the invariant marker ‘at‘.

Shaetlan kayar comes from Malayalam kāyar.

She came to be a sister-in-law of my grandmother!

James an dem…

A clock does not always show the time!

A aple!

A’m don it! The perfect in Shaetlan.

Doot does not always mean doubt!

In Shaetlan the tag consists of auxiliary inflected with the negative verbal suffix -(e)n.