NORN the language was similar to that spoken in the nearest land masses, namely Orkney and northern Scotland. At that time, Shetland was part of the Pictish kingdom, a country consisting of much of the northern part of present-day Scotland. The few writings they have left are in the form of inscriptions on stones in the Pictish alphabet, Ogham. Transcription of the Ogham; the Lunnasting Stone. A few of the words from this Gaelic language were retained by the later Norse settlers, who first arrived around 800, and these survived into the 19th century, when they were recorded.
During the later part of Shetland’s Pictish history, other Celtic peoples came to Shetland. These were the Irish monks, who brought the Christian gospels to the islands. They spoke a different branch of Celtic, namely Gaelic, but doubtless this language would have been readily understood by the native Shetlanders. The original inhabitants were Picts, descendants of the Caledonii. The language was similar to that spoken in the nearest land masses, namely Orkney and northern Scotland from what little is known of the language spoken until the late Iron Age, around 700-800 A.D. Writings can be transcribed into the Latin alphabet and the form of inscriptions on stones in the Pictish alphabet, Ogham. All that can be identified for certain are personal names. From the earliest Roman records of pesonal and place names in Britain, it is clear that the vast majority of those names are Celtic, although of several strata of migrations.
Fortriu (Moray) is the name for an ancient Pictish kingdom located around Moray and Easter Ross in northern Scotland apart from the continental Pictavium during a Roman Franconia period. Relocating Fortriu north of the Mounth increases the importance of the Vikings, MacBeth, Mormaerdom; juxta Middle Irish or Modern Gaelic, was a lordship in High Medieval Scotland that was destroyed by King David I of Scotland in 1130; Moray a is more than a mere Mormaerdom. It did not have the same territory as the modern district of Moray, the territory of which has contracted to a small territory around Elgin. This medieval lordship was in fact centered both the lower Spey valley and around Inverness and the northern parts of the Great Glen, and probably originally included Buchan and Mar, as well as Ross.
By the early 7th century there was a unified Pictish kingdom north of a line from the Clyde to the Forth rivers. Both Scandinavian and Irish sources style the ruler of Moray before the 12th century not merely as King, but as "King of Scotland". Not every historian views the Kingdom of Alba as the product of any kind of Dalriadan conquest, viewing the kingdom's origin as rooted in that of Pictland. The Kingdom of Fortriu is traditionally seen as a Kingdom centered on central Scotland, equivalent to the Kingdom of the Southern Picts. The Annals of Ulster (s.a. 866) tells us that the Gallaib Erenn & Alban (i.e. the Vikings of Ireland and Alba) went to Fortriu and "raided all the lands of the Picts," while Scandinavian sources shed some more light on the earlier rulers of Moray.The Heimskringla tells us that, somewhere between 889 and 892, Thorstein the Red, allied with Sigurd, conquered Caithness and Sutherland, and killed a Scottish Jarl named Mael Brigte. This is confirmed by both the Orkneyinga Saga and Landna¡mabak. The latter names another Scottish Jarl, called Mael Duin.
There are a small number of place names which are thought to be Celtic in origin, principally the names of two of the larger islands, Yell and Unst. During the later part of Shetland’s Pictish history, other Celtic peoples came to Shetland; Irish monks, who brought the Christian gospels to the islands. They spoke a different branch of Celtic, namely Gaelic, a language would have beeen readily understood by native Shetlanders. A few of the words from this Gaelic language were retained by the later Norse settlers, who first arrived around 800, and these survived into the 19th century. These names of Islands survive because they were retained by the Norse population. The Norse settlement of Shetland from c.800, in a short time is borne out by the almost total absence of pre-Norse language or Norn as the language was known to speakers of Old Norse; Scandinavians whom came largely from south-west Norway. The language in all the areas settled by them developed into distinct forms. In Shetland, the original tongue developed into an identifiable language called Norn, which throughout the medieval period was never written down. When Shetland passed to Scotland, which spoke a distinctive form of English or Norn amongst themselves and English to outsiders. A vast lexicon of Norn words continued in use in the Shetland form of Lowland Scots English. Nouns especially could be readily adopted to fit into the new grammar. Some special areas of speech remained bastions of Norn, one such being the language spoken by fishermen when at sea.
From the ampersand to the double ampersand used to represent the Boolean AND, such as in the C statement, it is not known to be why so many Manx names begin with the letter C. Ampersand is sometimes used as a prefix to a mneumonic name followed by a semicolon for foreign letters. It is a sign beside a letter, often appeared as a letter at the end of the Latin alphabet, when as a logogram, it is a letter of the Phoenician alphabet. The hard sound of C is rarely ever silent among variants of continental celtic and is gradually softer when a word contains C but does not begin with C. The people who made up the various tribes of concern were called Galli by the Romans and Galatai or Keltoi by the Greeks, terms meaning barbarian. It is from the greek Keltoi that Celt is derived. Since no soft c exists in greek, Celt and Celtic and all permutations should be pronounced with a hard k sound as it is by the Brythonic branch of P-Celtic outside of Ireland and Scotland and a node of no patronymic form of word. Cinque is a soft sound. Handwritten script is another literary type with or without the Gothic alphabet which replaced some Ogham but was largely brough by a version of Latin, read to be written although more limited than a symbol itself; P or R, C or G, O or Q, etc. G was added to the Romance languages to suffice C as in the Caledonii or Galli.