Editing Yola dialect (section)

===Origins===
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The dialect was spoken in [[County Wexford]], particularly in the [[barony (Ireland)|baronies]] of [[Forth (County Wexford barony)|Forth]] and [[Bargy]]. This was the first area English speakers came to in the [[Norman invasion of Ireland]], supporting the theory that it evolved from the [[Middle English]] introduced in that period. As such it is thought to have been similar to [[Fingallian]], which was spoken in the [[Fingal]] region north of [[Dublin]]. Middle English, the mother tongue of the "[[Normans in Ireland|Old English]]" community, was widespread throughout southeastern Ireland until the 14th century; as the Old English were increasingly assimilated into Irish culture, their original language was gradually displaced through [[Gaelicisation]]. After this point, Yola and Fingallian were the only attested [[relict]]s of this original form of English.<ref name=Hickey2005>{{cite book |last= Hickey |first= Raymond|title= Dublin English: Evolution and Change |year= 2005 |publisher= John Benjamins Publishing |isbn= 90-272-4895-8 |pages=196–198}}</ref><ref name=Hickey2002>{{cite book |last= Hickey |first= Raymond|title= A Source Book for Irish English |year= 2002 |publisher= John Benjamins Publishing |isbn= 9027237530 |pages= 28–29}}</ref>

[[Modern English]] was widely introduced by British colonists during and after the 17th century, forming the basis for the modern [[Hiberno-English]] of Ireland. The new varieties were notably distinct from the surviving relict dialects.<ref name=Hickey2005/><ref name=Hickey2002/> As English continued to spread, both Yola and Fingallian died out in the 19th century, though Yola continued to be used as a liturgical language by the churches of Wexford well into the 20th century. To this day the Kilmore Choir sings what were once Yola tunes, now adapted to Standard English.

The speech of Forth and Bargy was the only kind in Ireland included in [[Alexander John Ellis]]'s work ''On Early English Pronunciation Volume V'', which was the earliest survey of dialects of English. The phonetics of the dialect were taken from a local reverend.<ref>{{cite book |page=67 |title=On Early English Pronunciation, Part V. The existing phonology of English dialects compared with that of West Saxon speech |first=A. J. |last=Ellis |publisher=Truebner & Co. |location=London |year=1889 |url=https://openlibrary.org/works/OL6089353W/On_Early_English_Pronunciation_Part_V}}</ref>