Just when you dhinke thou knew everythinge
I was under the impression that I had a fair share of knowledge of the Germanic languages that are and were spoken throughout history, and then this early split of of the English language pops up which I had never heard of, Yola.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yola_language
It's great to look at it, and how it continued until mid-19th century. It still as ich for 'I', thou for 'you', no great vowel shift, loss of word final dentals, and voicing of word initial fricatives. It actually looks a bit as if Middle-English was influenced by southern Dutch.
And then there's some lovely Irish influences too like here:
loyale dwellerès na Baronie Forthe
Loyal Dwellers OF THE Barony of Forthe.
na is the Irish genitive of the definite article feminine.
So now I do wonder, who did know about this one?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingalian
Too bad that there's next to information to be found on it.
It's quite odd how it states it might both be a dialect of Yola and a vestige of old Norse and a dialect of Old English. Saying this is rather contradictory is an understatement. But hey, that's Wikipedia for you you ;-)
Nice to see a different face around here commenting. Welcome.
(Just found your blog when I googled Fingalian :D expect me to drop by every now and then).
I have a copy of the book, it's very rare and would be worth 1500 euros.
http://books.google.ie/books?id=KBEHAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage&dq=yola+jacob+OR+pooles+OR+glossary+-nigeria&lr=&as_brr=3&as_pt=ALLTYPES&source=gbs_summary_r&cad=0
My ancestors were Norman and arrived there in 1173, my cousins still own
the original Norman Keep. They were called Le Brun.
My great aunt was a senator in wexford in the thirties. Kathleen Browne.
She was a fluent yola speaker and writer. The family used it to write letters
to each other. Kathleen even wrote a short book about it for the wexford
historical society.
Garrett Browne.
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