Yola language

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The Yola language was an extinct West Germanic language once spoken in County Wexford, Ireland, that preserved many archaic features derived from early English settlers.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Anglic language
West Germanic language
extinct language
alsoKnownAs Anglo-Frisian dialects
surface form: Forth and Bargy dialect

Yola
closelyRelatedTo Fingallian
surface form: Fingallian language

Middle English dialects of south-west England
country Ireland
derivedFrom Early Modern English
Middle English
developedFrom speech of English settlers arriving after the Norman invasion of Ireland
documentedBy Jacob Poole
documentedIn 18th-century texts
19th-century texts
ethnicGroup Anglo-Norman settlers in Ireland
Old English settlers in Ireland
extinctIn 19th century
glottologCode yola1234
hasAncestralLanguage Old English
hasFeature conservative phonology
loanwords from Irish
loanwords from Norman French
many archaic English vocabulary items
retention of Middle English grammatical features
strong influence from south-western English dialects
hasMorphologicalFeature distinct second person plural pronouns
hasPhonologicalFeature retention of long vowels similar to Middle English
hasWork 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
historicalPeriod Early modern period
Middle Ages
influencedBy Irish English
surface form: Hiberno-English

Irish language
Anglo-Norman
surface form: Norman French
isoException dialect
languageEndangermentStatus extinct
languageFamily Germanic languages
Indo-European languages
West Germanic languages
lastKnownSpeakersDate late 19th century
nameEtymologyLanguage English dialect of Wexford
nameMeaning old
primaryArea baronies of Forth and Bargy
region County Wexford
spokenIn County Wexford
Ireland
status extinct
subclassOf Germanic language
Indo-European language
usedIn rural communities of south County Wexford
writingSystem Latin script

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Fingallian closelyRelatedTo Yola language
Old English isAncestorOf Yola language