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Yorkshire dialect (also known as Broad Yorkshire, Tyke, Yorkie, or Yorkshire English) is a dialect of English, or a geographic grouping of several dialects, spoken in the Yorkshire region of Northern England.
Strictly speaking, the dialects spoken south and west of this isophone are Midland dialects, whereas the dialects spoken north and east of it are truly Northern. It is possible that the Midland form moved up into the region with people gravitating towards the manufacturing districts of the West Riding during the Industrial Revolution.
Figure 8 shows the top 15 languages (or language groups) in Yorkshire and the Humber. These languages represent 75% of all the languages spoken by those not using English as their main spoken language.
Yorkshire speech is often recognised by well-known words and phrases such as ee by gum (an exclamation), owt/nowt (anything/nothing), and the use of ye, thee and thou as second person pronouns. But the dialect of the region goes far beyond these stereotypes.
Discover the origins of Yorkshire dialect. Established in 1897, the Yorkshire Dialect Society is the world's oldest surviving dialect society.
The Yorkshire dialect is particularly distinctive and is often - perhaps unfairly? - caricatured. When the Vikings invaded England in the 9th century they divided what we now know as Yorkshire...
Much of the Yorkshire dialect has its roots in Old English and Old Norse, and is called Broad Yorkshire or Tyke. Rather confusingly, someone born and bred in Yorkshire is also called a tyke. Examples of the Yorkshire dialect can be found in literary works such as ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte and Charles Dickens ’ novel ‘Nicholas ...
