Elfdalian (autonym:슠쎖vdalsk) is an archaic North Germanic language spoken by circa 2,000 native speakers in the locality of 쎄lvdalen, the seat of the namesake municipality located in Dalarna county, Sweden. As it is the case of the rest of the North Germanic languages (more specifically Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, or Faroese), Elfdalian is descended from…
Irish English (or Hiberno-English, from Latin ‘Hibernia’ meaning Ireland) is a term that refers to the totality of dialects spoken and written in Ireland. Historically, English was firstly used in Ireland along with the Norman conquest in the 12th century in the geographic area corresponding to modern day Dublin, at the time known as ‘the…
The Germanic languages form a linguistic sub-branch of the Indo-European languages. They are divided into three additional sub-groups as follows: West Germanic (English, German, Low German, Dutch, Frisian, Scots, Afrikaans, Yiddish, Luxembourgish); North Germanic (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Faroese, Elfdalian); East Germanic – extinct sub-group (Gothic, Burgundian, Vandalic). Statistics I) West Germanic languages 1) English…
The English language as we know it today is descended from Old English, a Germanic language which was brought by the Angles and Saxons during the Early Middle Ages in Britain, hence being alternatively known as Anglo-Saxon. In the wake of the Anglo-Saxon settlement, the Norse incursions, and the Norman conquest after the Battle of…
The Northumbrian dialect is an extinct dialect of the English language. During the early Middle Ages it was a dialect of Old English that was spoken in the former Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria (currently divided between northern England and southern Scotland).슠During the late part of the 8th century, the Northumbrian dialect came in contact with…
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