Editing Yorkshire dialect (section)

{{Short description|Dialects of English spoken in Yorkshire, England}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Yorkshire dialect
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| state            = [[England]]
| region           = [[Yorkshire]]
| creator          = 
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| coordinates      = {{coord|54|N|2|W|display=title,inline}}
| ethnicity        = Yorkshire British; various
| extinct          = 
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| revived          = 
| revived-category = <!-- or revived-cat -->
| familycolor      = Indo-European
| fam2             = [[Germanic languages|Germanic]]
| fam3             = [[West Germanic languages|West Germanic]]
| fam4             = [[Ingvaeonic languages|Ingvaeonic]]
| fam5             = [[Anglo-Frisian languages|Anglo-Frisian]]
| fam6             = [[Anglic languages|Anglic]]
| fam7             = [[English language|English]]
| fam8             = [[British English]]
| ancestor         = [[Old English]]
| ancestor2        = [[Middle English]] (Northern Middle English (North and East Riding), East Midlands Middle English (West Riding dialect))
| dialects         = Traditionally divided between the West Riding, the North Riding, and East Riding dialects. 
Different varieties exist within the various [[dialects]] of Yorkshire, shaped by geography & culture.
| map              = Yorkshire UK 1851 locator map.svg
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| mapcaption       = Location of Yorkshire within England
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| notice           = IPA
| isoexception     = dialect
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{{listen|filename=Damien hirst bbc radio4 desert island discs 13 05 2013 b01sd0hy.flac|title=Speech example|description=An example of a male speaker from [[Leeds]] ([[Damien Hirst]]).}}
{{listen|filename=David hockney front row b01460l8.flac|title=Speech example|description=An example of a male speaker from [[Bradford]] ([[David Hockney]]).}}
{{listen|filename=Lord Prescott BBC Radio4 Desert Island Discs 19 Feb 2012 b01c6trm.flac||title=Speech example|description=An example of a male speaker from modern-day [[South Yorkshire]] (Lord [[John Prescott]]).}}

'''Yorkshire dialect''', also known as '''Yorkshire English''', '''Broad Yorkshire''', '''Tyke''', or '''Yorkie''', is a grouping of several regionally neighbouring [[Dialect|dialects]] of [[English language|English]] spoken in [[Yorkshire]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/voices2005/pete_2.shtml |title=Tyke: It's all the Vikings' fault (sort of) |access-date=16 April 2008 |last=Keane |first=Peter |publisher=[[BBC]] |work=BBC Bradford and West Yorkshire |archive-date=27 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327015740/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/voices2005/pete_2.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref> Yorkshire experienced drastic [[dialect levelling]] in the 20th century, eroding many traditional features, though [[Variation (linguistics)|variation]] and even [[Conservative and innovative language|innovations]] persist, at both the regional and sub-regional levels.<ref>Haigh, Sarah (2015). "Investigating Regional Speech in Yorkshire: Evidence from the Millennium Memory Bank" Doctoral dissertation. University of Sheffield, 159, 171.</ref><ref>{{cite journal | doi=10.3389/frai.2020.00048 | doi-access=free | title=General Northern English. Exploring Regional Variation in the North of England with Machine Learning | date=2020 | last1=Strycharczuk | first1=Patrycja | last2=López-Ibáñez | first2=Manuel | last3=Brown | first3=Georgina | last4=Leemann | first4=Adrian | journal=Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence | volume=3 | page=48 | pmid=33733165 | pmc=7861339 }}</ref> Organisations such as the Yorkshire Dialect Society and the East Riding Dialect Society exist to promote the survival of the more traditional features.<ref>Beal, Joan (2010). "Shifting Borders and Shifting Regional Identities". ''Language and Identities''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 220. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748635788-023.</ref>

The dialects have been represented in classic works of literature such as ''[[Wuthering Heights]]'', ''[[Nicholas Nickleby]]'' and ''[[The Secret Garden]]'', and linguists have documented variations of the dialects since the 19th century. In the mid-20th century, the [[Survey of English Dialects]] collected dozens of recordings of authentic Yorkshire dialects.