Wp/nth/Northumbrian dialect

Northumbrian is a dialect ov English, or yeblins its awn language. Thor's five or six dialects o Northumbrian:
 * Tyneside or Geordie
 * Northren
 * Westren
 * Soothren
 * Wearside

History
Linguists kens fower dialects ov Aud English: Northumbrian, Mercian, Kentish, an West Saxon. Awd Northumbrian (Awd English: Norðanhymbrisċ) wes spyek i the Kingdom o Northumbria (frae the Humber on the east coast o Northren Ingland te the Firth o Forth i the Scots Lawlans). The Viking invasion ov Ingland divided Northumbria inte twe pairts: Deira, the pairt sooth o the Tees, wes settled bi Danes 'at foonded the Kingdom o York, the pairt te the north an wes ruled bi the Yarls o Bamburgh, 'at teuk efter the Anglian Kings o Northumbria 'at cam afore 'em.

The Northumbrian dialects spyek i Yorkshire, Cumbria an Teesdale wes mair influenced bi Danish. North o the River Tweed, the northrenmyest Northumbrian dialect wes sindered frev aa uther varieties ov Inglish an developed inte the separate Scots language. The day, the modren Scots, Northumbrian, Cumbrian, north Lancastrian, an north-east Yorkshire dialects aa derives frev aud Northumbrian.

Writin i the 19th century, Inglish phonetian Alexender John Ellis caa'd the dialect the 'North Northren dialect', an mairked oot its boondaries as the hyel o Northumberland wi the the Lawer Wear wettershed an hyel Tyne wettershed i Durham, an area frae Kella te Berwick. He thowt on't as a transitional dialect atween Scots an uther macks o Northren English, sic as Cumbrian an Yorkshire. Yen featur o Northumbrian 'at differs frev uther northren dialects is the lack o the reduced definite airticle, 'at is fund i the Cumbrian, Lancashire, Teesdale, Upper Weardale an Yorkshire dialects. Anuther kenspeckle featur on't is the Northumbrian burr, the traditional airticulation o /r/ as [ʁ(ʷ)], the day, the featur is nobbut fund amang auder foaks frae rural pairts o Northumberland.

Northumbrian the day
Northumbrian is aiblins the myest kenspeckle regional dialect iv England the day. The Tyneside or Geordie dialect on't is the myest weel-ken'd form ov aa. Acause o this the foak, dialects an accents o nearby Wearside (offins ken'd bi the nyem 'Mackem'), Northumberland (ken'd 'Northumbrian' i reference te the coonty itsel) an whiles even Teessiders (knawn as 'Smoggies') is mistyen for Geordies bi foaks 'at disna come frae the area.

The Northumbrian dialect is thowt on as a separate Anglic language variety te Modren Standard English bi the Northumbrian Language Society acause it kythed i the region lang afore Standard English wes ivor browt intid. The society kens fower dialects on't: Geordie (Tyneside), Pitmatic or Soothren, Northren (frae the North o the River Coquet, through Alnwick an up te Berrick); an westren (frae Allendale through Hexham an up te Kielder). Thor's a canny argie te be myed aboot includin the dialect o the Lawer Wear an aa, at Alexander John Ellis grouped inte the North Northren group an aa. The Northumbrian Words Project recognises aa the dialects frae byeth Northumberland an Durham as Northumbrian dialects.