Fingalian

Also known as Fingalian language, Fingallian, Fingal dialect, Fingallian language

Fingallian or the Fingal dialect is an extinct dialect of Middle English formerly spoken in Fingal, Ireland. It is thought to have been an offshoot of Middle English, which was brought to Ireland during the Norman invasion, Although little is known of Fingallian, it is thought to have been similar to the Yola dialect of County Wexford.

Key facts

Language.name: Fingallian
Language.states: Ireland
Language.region: Fingal
Language.era: attested from 17th century
Language.familycolor: Indo-European
Language.fam2: Germanic
Language.fam3: West Germanic
Language.fam4: North Sea Germanic
Language.fam5: Anglo-Frisian
Language.fam6: Anglic
Language.fam7: Old West Saxon
Language.ancestor: Proto-Indo-European
Language.ancestor2: Proto-Germanic
Language.ancestor3: Proto-West Germanic
Language.ancestor4: Proto-English
Language.ancestor5: West Saxon dialect
Language.ancestor6: Middle English
Language.iso3: none

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Instance of: dead language
Subclass of: Anglic

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indigenous to: Fingal

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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections

Contents

History
Origins
''The Fingallian Dance''
''Purgatorium Hibernicum''
''Letters from Ireland''
Modern Fingal English
See also
Notes
References
External links

The surviving literature of Fingallian consists of two satirical or humorous poems, the short "Fingallian Dance" and the much longer Purgatorium Hibernicum. Both poems are anonymous and are thought to be humorous parodies of Fingallian.

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