Yola (language)

Yola is a dialect of English that was formerly spoken in County Wexford in south east Ireland .

history

The dialect began in the 12th century when the first so-called Old English settlements were founded in Ireland. Surrounded on all sides by Irish speakers , the Yola speakers had little contact with the rest of the English-speaking world, which is why their dialect did not experience the phonological development of the rest of English.

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There is no evidence for "zebbem". A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland. Formerly collected By Jacob Poole: And now edited, with some Introductory Observations, Additions from various sources, and Notes, By William Barnes (London, 1867, p. 16 and p. 81) contains "zeven" for "seven".

The Yola language did not become extinct until the 19th century, with the same socio-cultural changes that led to the decline of Irish. Individual vocabulary should have been preserved in today's colloquial language in the region. The most important characteristics of the Yola were the voiced initial consonants ( zebbem for "seven", zitch for "such", English such ), the Middle English vocalism and influences of Irish.

Yola was an exclusively spoken language and had no written standard. That is why the language is only known from sporadic records and individual texts.