Fingallian, alsae kent as the Fingal dialeck, is a extinct Anglic leid that wis spoak in Fingal, Ireland.[3] It is fae the Middle Inglis spoak in Ireland durin the Norman invasion o Ireland. Wee is kent anent Fingallian, tho it wis seemlar til the Yola leid o the sooth-eastren Coonty Wexford.[4]

Fingallian
Fingallian
Native taeIreland
RegionFingal
ExtinctMid-19t yeirhunner
Early forms
Leid codes
ISO 639-3Nane (mis)
Glottologeast2834[1]
fing1234[2]

The surviving literature o Fingallian conseists o twa poems, the "Fingallian Dance" an the Purgatorium Hibernicum. Baith poems hae nae kent awner(s) an maist likely parodies o Fingallian bi na-hamlet spikkers.

History eedit

Early Fingallian eedit

Fingallian wud be brung til Ireland durin the Anglo-Norman invasion o Ireland an wis a dialect o Middle Inglis at the tim. It apparently haed a Norse influence, that turnit oot til be fake.[5] It haed Norman influences as it is fae Middle Inglis. The dialect wis stairtit til be spoak in 12t yeirhunner, maist likely 1170s durin the invasion.

Middle Fingallian eedit

Fingallian wud hae influences fae leids in the area, siclik Erse. It wis documentit durin the late 1680s and early 1690s wi the poems "the Fingallian dance" and Purgatorium Hibernicum. It wis gey deeferent fae ither Inglis dialects in the area. It stairted til be deeferent to the Forth and Bargy dialect o Wexford.

Extinction eedit

Whan Early Modren Inglis wis brung til the isle, the twa leids stairtit tae hae less spikkers. This wud end up makin the twa leids extinct in the 19t yeirhunner, an alsae givin Inglis main leid status.

References eedit

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Irish Anglo-Norman". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Fingallian". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Shiels, Damian (14 Julie 2013). "Column: Yola and Fingalian – the forgotten ancient English dialects of Ireland". The Journal (in Inglis). Retrieved 30 Juin 2023.
  4. Bliss, Alan (1979). Spoken English in Ireland, 1600-1740: Twenty-seven Representative Texts (in Inglis). Dolmen Press. pp. 193–194. ISBN 978-0-391-01119-9.
  5. Hickey, Raymond (2005). Dublin English: Evolution and Change. John Benjamins Publishing. pp. 196–197. ISBN 90-272-4895-8.

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