Geordie
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Geordie ( ) is a demonym and vernacular dialect characterising Newcastle upon Tyne and the wider Tyneside area of North East England.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Geordie
- Language.altname
- Tyneside English, Newcastle English
- Language.states
- England
- Language.region
- Tyneside
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.fam2
- Germanic
- Language.fam3
- West Germanic
- Language.fam4
- North Sea Germanic
- Language.fam5
- Anglo-Frisian
- Language.fam6
- English
- Language.fam7
- Northern English
- Language.fam8
- Northumbrian dialect
- Language.ancestor
- Old English
- Language.ancestor2
- Middle English
- Language.image
- File:Ant and Dec in Cardiff Bay.jpg
- Language.imagescale
- 1.15
- Language.imagecaption
- Television presenters Ant and Dec are Geordies from Newcastle upon Tyne
- Language.map
- File:TynesideBUA.png
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- dialect
- Subclass of
- Northern English
- Country
- United Kingdom
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- Commons category
- Geordie
- different from
- Geordie
- dialect of
- British English
- indigenous to
- Newcastle upon Tyne
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- History
- Geographical coverage
- People
- Dialect
- Etymology
- Linguistic surveys
- Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Vocabulary
- References
- Sources
- External links
Geordie ( ) is a demonym and vernacular dialect characterising Newcastle upon Tyne and the wider Tyneside area of North East England.
The vernacular, also known as Tyneside English or Newcastle English in linguistics, is one of the major dialects of northern England. It developed as a variety of the old Northumbrian dialect.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Geordie” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.