"Shetlandic language" redirects here; not to be confused with Shetland Scots.Norn, an extinct North Germanic language, 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.