English Language: A Comparative Analysis Of Different Varieties

English language is not the same in the whole nation known as England. It presents different varieties. Mainly there is a major division between the North and the South. From the southern border of Scotland, and the River Humber and from the Pennines to the Midlands the county of Yorkshire extends, as a result Yorkshire is the largest county in England. This is the county in which Yorkshire Dialect – also known as Broad Yorkshire- is spoken. This land has been exposed to five main linguistic invasions, but the roots of Yorkshire dialect are in the Old English (OE) and the people from Scandinavia, who spoke Old Norse. In addition due to the different people who established in this land and also due to its large extension, the Yorkshire dialect is not the same in all the county and it presented inner differences between the regions. In fact, the county

They established the roots of the Yorkshire dialect. From this point of view, Yorkshire dialect has the same origin that RP English, owing to both have their roots in which we know as Old English. This has its origin in the language spoken by four different people who invade the Island, the Angles, the Saxons, the Jutes and the Frisians. They invaded Britain but they settled in different areas, therefore Yorkshire was occupied mainly by the Angles who introduced some of the most relevant aspects of the Yorkshire dialect such as the broad vowels, short vowels, and a strong Germanic speech (Kenell, 1992)) Angles occupied Northumbria (or the area in the North of the River Humber, as a result, originally Yorkshire people spoke Northumbrian dialect and only with the passing of time, the dialect of Mercia spread into the Southern county giving the basis of the two main divisions, taking the river Wharfe as a boundary, Consequently, countless words have survived from the OE and even some of them have preserved the ancient form from this