Northumbrian was a dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglian Kingdom of Northumbria. Together with Mercian, Kentish and West Saxon, it forms one of...
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Northumbrian dialect or Northumbrian English is any one of several traditional English dialects spoken in the historic counties of Northumberland and County...
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in parts of Scotland developed into modern Scots. Speakers of Northumbrian Old English settled in south-eastern Scotland in the 7th century, at which...
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grammar of Old English differs greatly from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected. As a Germanic language, Old English has a morphological...
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Northern English closely related to Scots historic Northumbrian Old English, a variety of Old English spoken in the Kingdom of Northumbria an inhabitant...
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of the Northumbrian dialect (prevalent in northern England and spoken in southeast Scotland). During the Middle English period, many Old English grammatical...
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substrate influence is disputed. Old English was divided into four dialects: the Anglian dialects (Mercian and Northumbrian) and the Saxon dialects (Kentish...
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Roman conquest. Old English had four main dialects, associated with particular Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Kentish, Mercian, Northumbrian, and West Saxon....
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Northumbria (redirect from Northumbrians)
languages in Britain: English, British, Irish, Pictish, and Latin. Northumbrian was one of four distinct dialects of Old English, along with Mercian, West...
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Early Scots (redirect from Old Scots)
Middle English-speaking parts of Scotland in the period before 1450. The northern forms of Middle English descended from Northumbrian Old English. During...
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Month (section Old English calendar)
written in the 8th century. His Old English month names are probably written as pronounced in Bede's native Northumbrian dialect. The months were named...
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Humber-Lune Line (category English language in England)
boundary in England between descendants of Northumbrian Old English to the north and Mercian Old English to the south. It is considered the most significant...
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death by Cuthbert. This poem exists in a Northumbrian and later version. Cædmon is considered the first Old English poet whose work still survives. He is...
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form loaned from Old Norse (skirt and shirt). Old English had four major dialect groups: Kentish, West Saxon, Mercian, and Northumbrian. Kentish and West...
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be: Old English (probably specifically Northumbrian Old English). This would be consistent with production in Northumbria, or by a Northumbrian missionary...
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Mercian dialect (redirect from Mercian (Old English))
one monarchy). Together with Northumbrian, it was one of the two Anglian dialects. The other two dialects of Old English were Kentish and West Saxon....
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West Saxon dialect (redirect from West Saxon (Old English))
of the four distinct regional dialects of Old English. The three others were Kentish, Mercian and Northumbrian (the latter two were similar and are known...
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Cumbrian dialect (redirect from Cumbrian English)
Cumbrian is descended from Northern Middle English and in turn Northumbrian Old English. Old English was introduced to Cumbria from Northumbria, where it was...
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Northumbrian dialect, any of several English language varieties spoken in Northumbria or Northumberland Northumbrian Old English 50th (Northumbrian)...
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English (Aitken, A. J. and McArthur, T. Eds. (1979) Languages of Scotland. Edinburgh,Chambers. p. 87). McClure (1991) gives Northumbrian Old English in...
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Old English spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent. It was one of four dialect-groups of Old English, the other three being Mercian, Northumbrian (known...
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Northumbrian Water Limited is a water company in the United Kingdom, providing mains water and sewerage services in the English counties of Northumberland...
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Geordie (redirect from Geordie English)
dominated by the kingdom of Northumbria, there developed a distinct Northumbrian Old English dialect, which preceded modern Geordie. The linguistic conservatism...
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History of Edinburgh (redirect from Northumbrian Edinburgh)
where Northumbrian Old English was spoken and its name acquired the Old English suffix, "-burh". While history records little about Northumbrian Edinburgh...
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("Reigning over the governments of the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxons, Northumbrians, Pagans, and British") Eadwig the Fair: Rex nutu Dei Angulsæxna et Northanhumbrorum...
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Scots language (category Articles containing Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text)
The Gaelic of Scotland is now usually called Scottish Gaelic. Northumbrian Old English had been established in what is now southeastern Scotland as far...
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Anglo-Frisian languages (section Words in English, West Riding Yorkshire, Scots, Yola, West Frisian, Dutch, German and West-Flemish)
Scots Ulster Scots Northern English (see the article about the Humber-Lune Line) Northumbrian English Lower Northern English Irish Anglo-Norman Fingalian...
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genitive singulars in Old English are bealwes, bearwes. In the Anglian (i.e. Mercian and Northumbrian) dialects of Old English, a process called smoothing...
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Modern English, sometimes called New English (NE) or present-day English (PDE) as opposed to Middle and Old English, is the form of the English language...
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dialects were Mercian, Northumbrian, Kentish and West Saxon. West Saxon formed the basis for the literary standard of the later Old English period. The dominant...
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