Mither Tongue

This collection of Jidi Majia's, a Chinese poet belonging to the Nuosu culture (its lesser-spoken language in China has around two and a half million speakers) has been translated into the three strands of the Scots language: Lowland Scots by Stuart Paterson, Doric by Sheena Blackhall and Shetlandic by Christine de Luca. These translations are on the opposite page to an English translation by the eminent translator from Chinese, Denis Mair, who has written the afterword on the context of Ji...