Wp/nth/Northumbria

The Kingdom o Northumbria (Awd English: Norþanhymbra Rīċe; Latin: Regnum Northanhymbrorum) was an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom i the North ov England an Sooth o Scotland. It wis formed efter the twe awder Kingdoms o Bernicia (north o the Tees) and Deira (sooth o the Tees) cam thegither.

Follaïn the Viking invasion ov England, Northumbria sooth o the Tees wis sattled bi the Danes, that established the Kingdom o Jorvik i Deira. I the year 1018, the northren pairt o Bernicia, ayont the Tweed, wis annexed bi Scotland follaïn the Northumbrian defeat at Battle o Carham. The Northumbrian rump atween the Tweed an Tees wis annexed bi the Normans that established the Coonty o Northumberland. The Coonty wis split inte the twe separate coonties o Northumberland an Durham i the 13th century, efter the Bishops o Durham declared the lands atween the Tyne an Tees lay ootside ony English shire.

Northumbrie thi day
Northumbria ne langer officially exists the day, hoovier, the coonty o Northumberland is nyemed efter Northumbria. The nyem Northumbria itsel is sometimes used for the region atween the Tweed an Tees, centred o the twe historic coonties o Northumberland an Durham, where folks still talks Northumbrian dialects the day. The nyem is used biv a canny few organisations i the region, sic as Northumbria University, Northumbria Pollis, an Northumbrian Wettor.

I 2020 the idea o Northumbria was browt back inte the public consciousness biv a group o Northren English separatists on Twitter 'at myed the NIP (Northern Independence Party). The NIP proposes te de a referendum on the independence o the independence o Northern England. This new state wad include the hyel o Northren England (North East England, inculding north Lincolsnhire and Hee Peak District i Derbyshire an aw. The party hez awriddy competed i twe by-elections (Hartlepool 2021 and Wakefield 2022) but didn't de se weel in owther yen.

Language
Northumbrian Awd English, or Awd Northumbrian, was yen o fower Awd English dialects, alang wi Mercian, West Saxon, an Kentish. The modren Northumbrian, Cumbrian, Scots, an moribund Northeastern Yorkshire dialects is aw derived frev Awd Northumbrian.

Cumbric is a nyem gien te the Brythonic Celtic language 'at was spoken i parts o the northwest England an soothren Scotland. Mony plyece nyems i Cumbria an soothren Scotland is derived frae Cumbric, sic as Carlisle, Helvellyn an Penrith. Latin was spoken an aw, myestly bi the intelligentsia, an was used te write mony awd Northumbrian texts sic as Bede's Ecclesiastical History o the English People.