Northern English
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Northern English is a group of dialects of the English language. It includes Northumbrian, which is more similar in some respects to Scots. Among the other dialects are Cumbrian, Tyke (Yorkshire dialect) and Scouse. Northern English shows Danish influence because parts of its area used to be under Danish control. Northern English is one of the major groupings of British English, which also goes for East Anglian English, Midlands English and Southern English.
Northern English contains:
- Cumbrian dialect
- Geordie (spoken in the Newcastle upon Tyne/Greater Tyneside area
- Lancashire dialect
- Mackem (spoken in Sunderland/Wearside)
- Mancunian (spoken in the Manchester area)
- Pitmatic (two variations, one spoken in the former mining communities of County Durham and the other in Northumberland
- Scouse (spoken in Liverpool with variations as far as North Wales)
- Stokie (spoken in Stoke-on-Trent)
- Teesside dialect (spoken in some areas of County Durham and Yorkshire, mainly around the Tees estuary)
- Tyke (spoken in Yorkshire)
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