Key facts
- Native to
- Ireland
- Region
- County Wexford
- Ethnicity
- Old English/Hiberno-Normans
- Extinct
- c. late 19th century
- Language family
- Indo-European Germanic West Germanic North Sea Germanic Anglo-Frisian Anglic Old West Saxon Yola
- Early forms
- Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Proto-West Germanic Proto-English West Saxon dialect Middle English
- Iso 639 3
- (covered by Middle English enm , yol retired)
- Linguist list
- yol
- Glottolog
- east2834 , yola1237
- Linguasphere
- 52-ABA-bd
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Encyclopedic overview
Yola, more commonly and historically the Forth and Bargy dialect, is an extinct dialect of the Middle English language once spoken in the baronies of Forth and Bargy in County Wexford, Ireland. As such, it was probably similar to the Fingallian dialect of the Fingal area. Both became functionally extinct in the 19th century when they were replaced by modern Hiberno-English. The word yolacode: yol is deprecated means 'old' in the dialect. In modern times, there have been efforts to revive the dialect.
Yola hut refurbished in Tagoat, County Wexford, Ireland
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yola” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.