Wp/nth/Tyneside dialect

Thi Tyneside dialect, mair offen knawn as Geordie, is the maist kenspeckle dialect o Northumbrian. The dialect hes a greet collection o 19th century literatur, and iv its braidest form, sarves as the lexical and grammatical base o the standard o the proposed Northumbrian language.

Geordie is a continuation and development o the language spoken biv Anglo-Saxon sattlers, initially employed bi the ancient Brythons te fight the Pictish invaders efter the end o Roman rule i Britain i the 5th century.The Angles, Saxons and Jutes at arrived becam ascendant politically and culturally ower the native British thro subsequent migration frae tribal hamelands alang the North Sea coast o mainland Europe. The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms at kythed in the Dark Ages spak maistly mutually intelligible varieties o what is nooadays caad Auld English, ilk varyin a bit i phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. This linguistic consarvatism means that poems bi the Anglo-Saxon scholar the Venerable Bede translates mair successfu inte Geordie nor inte Standard Inglish.

I Northren England and the Scottish borders, then dominated bi the kingdom o Northumbria, there developed a distinct Northumbrian Auld Inglish dialect. Later Irish migrants aiblins influenced Geordie phonology frae the early 19th century.

The British Library points oot that the Norse, at mainly bade sooth o the River Tees, affected the language i Yorkshire an Teesdale but nut i regions farther the north. This soorce adds that "the border skirmishes at brok oot sporadically durin the Middle Ages meant the River Tweed establisht itsel as a significant northren barrier again Scottish influence". The, mony folk at talks the Geordie dialect uses words sic as gan ('go' – modren Dutch gaan}}) and bairn ('child' – modren Danish barn\), at "can still trace their ruts reet back te the Angles".