Editing Norn language (section)

{{Short description|Extinct Germanic language spoken in the Northern Isles of Scotland}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Norn
| nativename       = {{lang|nrn-latn|norn}}
| state            = [[Scotland]]
| region           = [[Northern Isles]] and [[Caithness]]
| extinct          = c.1850, with the death of [[Walter Sutherland (Norn)|Walter Sutherland]]
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
| fam3             = [[North Germanic languages|North Germanic]]
| fam4             = [[Old West Norse|West Scandinavian]]
| fam5             = Insular Scandinavian
| ancestor         = [[Old Norse language|Old Norse]]
| ancestor2        = [[Old West Norse]]
| script           = [[Younger Futhark]] ({{small|original}})<br>[[Old Norse orthography|Old Norse alphabet]]
| iso3             = nrn
| linglist         = nrn
| glotto           = oldn1246
| glottorefname    = Old Norn
| lingua           = 52-AAA-ac
| notice           = IPA
| speakers2        = possibly after 1932
| map              = Languages of Scotland 1400 AD.svg
| mapcaption       = Languages of Scotland around the early 15th century, based on placename evidence
{{Legend|#F87217|Norn}}
{{Legend|#357EC7|[[Scottish Gaelic]]}}
{{Legend|#ff0|[[Scots language|Scots]]}}
| revived          = exist
}}
'''Norn''' is an extinct [[North Germanic languages|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 [[pledge (law)|pledged]] to Scotland by Norway in 1468–69, it was gradually replaced by [[Scots language|Scots]]. Norn is thought to have become [[Extinct language|extinct]] around 1850, after the death of [[Walter Sutherland (Norn)|Walter Sutherland]], the language's last known speaker, though there are claims the language persisted as late as 1932.<ref name="Scots Language p. 394"/>