Geordie, corresponds to the dialect spoken in Tyneside, a conurbation in North East England which is originally part of Northumberland and County Durham counties (Beal, J. C., 2012: 2). Tyneside English has been one of the developments of the early kingdom of Northumbria, which historically consisted the area between Doncaster in the South and the River Forth in the North. In these times (Keuchler, n.d.) the River Tees assembled the limit between the Northern Bernicia sector and the Southern Deira sector, but the Anglians of Germany and Denmark origin settled the region later known as Northumbria by unifying Bernicia and Deira in the 7th century. In this way, the same dialect of Old English was spoken all around the Eastern part of today’s Scottish boundary. The Angles and Saxons (Simpson, 1991) imported to Britain a language which was going to be the precursor of modern English and there were the Angles of Denmark that provided its name.
As the Danish invasion in the 8th and 9th centuries (Keuchler, K., n.d.) did not affect the Northern part of the River Tees, there was not a great influence on the dialect either. In this manner, the dialect of today’s Northumberland and Tyneside persisted almost untouched. Nevertheless, there was a strong Scandinavian and Germanic impact on the Southern dialect, in nowadays Yorkshire, Cleveland and Humberside, above all.
In this way (Simpson, 1991), according to the provenance of Geordie dialect words, there are more than 80% Angle in origin. Standard English words, however, are less than 30% through their Latin and Norman French domination.
References
Simpson, David (1991). Geordie Accent and Dialect Origins. [online] Available at: http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/GeordieOrigins.html [Accessed 25 May 2016].
Keuchler, K. (n.d.). Geordie Accent and Tyneside English: «On the Language and the Dialect Spoken in and around Newcastle-upon-Tyne». Seminar paper.
Photo taken from: Research.ncl.ac.uk. (2016). Talk of the Toon | NE Dialects. [online] Available at: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/decte/toon/intro_to_ne_dialects.html [Accessed 25 May 2016].
Beal, J. C., Burbano-Elizondo, L., & Llamas, C. (2012). Urban North-Eastern English: Tyneside to Teesside. Edinburgh University Press.
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