Yola

E114841

Yola is an extinct Germanic language that developed from Middle English and was once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Yola canonical 3

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf West Germanic language
extinct language
causeOfExtinction language shift to English
country Ireland
developedFrom Middle English
documentedIn 18th-century texts
19th-century texts
extinction 19th century
follows Middle English
glottocode yola1234
hasAlternativeName Forth and Bargy dialect (historical)
surface form: Forth and Bargy dialect

Yola language
hasAncestor Middle English
Old English
hasCulturalAssociation Old English communities of County Wexford
hasDialect Forth and Bargy dialect (historical)
surface form: Bargy dialect

Forth dialect
hasEthnicGroup Old English nobility in Ireland
surface form: Anglo-Norman settlers of Wexford
hasGrammaticalFeature conservative Middle English verb forms
distinct second person plural pronouns
hasLexicalFeature large proportion of Middle English-derived vocabulary
loanwords from Anglo-Norman
loanwords from Irish
hasLinguisticTypology fusional language
hasNotableText A Yola Zong
A Glossary with some pieces of verse of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy in the County of Wexford
surface form: The dialect of Forth and Bargy (1867)
hasPhonologicalFeature preservation of older English consonant clusters
retention of Middle English vowel contrasts
hasWordOrder SVO
influencedBy Anglo-Norman
surface form: Anglo-Norman language

Irish language
Modern English
ISO639-3 yol
languageFamily Anglic languages
Germanic languages
Indo-European language family
surface form: Indo-European languages

West Germanic languages
region southeast Ireland
sharesFeatureWith Irish English
surface form: Hiberno-English

Scots
surface form: Scots language
spokenIn County Wexford
baronies of Forth and Bargy
surface form: Forth and Bargy baronies
status extinct
studiedBy Jacob Poole
William Barnes
subclassOf Anglic language
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

baronies of Forth and Bargy historicalLanguage Yola
subject surface form: Baronies of Forth and Bargy