Mid Ulster English (sometimes simply Ulster English) is the dialect of most people in the traditional Province of Ulster in Ireland, including those in the two main cities. The dialect has been greatly influenced by Ulster Irish, but also by the languages of the British who arrived during the plantations – this includes the Scots and Scottish Gaelic languages. It represents a cross-over area between Ulster Scots in the north and Hiberno-English in the south.

PropertyValue
dbpedia-owl:thumbnail
dbpprop:abstract
  • Mid Ulster English (sometimes simply Ulster English) is the dialect of most people in the traditional Province of Ulster in Ireland, including those in the two main cities. The dialect has been greatly influenced by Ulster Irish, but also by the languages of the British who arrived during the plantations – this includes the Scots and Scottish Gaelic languages. It represents a cross-over area between Ulster Scots in the north and Hiberno-English in the south. Despite its name, the term Mid Ulster English is commonly used to describe the dialect of Ulster in general, not simply County Tyrone (where the geographical centre of the province lies). The accent of much of County Monaghan (chiefly the area known as South Monaghan) and the accent of all of County Cavan (both of these counties lying in South Ulster) is largely southern in character. The accent of South Armagh, which also lies in South Ulster, is also quite southern sounding, closely resembling the accents of parts of County Cavan, north County Louth and South Monaghan. On the other hand, the accent in north County Antrim (in northeastern Ulster) sounds much more akin to lowlands Scots. The rest of the province uses Mid Ulster English in differing varieties usually distinguished with reference to the county of origin of the speaker.
dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection
dbpprop:reference
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Mid Ulster English (sometimes simply Ulster English) is the dialect of most people in the traditional Province of Ulster in Ireland, including those in the two main cities. The dialect has been greatly influenced by Ulster Irish, but also by the languages of the British who arrived during the plantations – this includes the Scots and Scottish Gaelic languages. It represents a cross-over area between Ulster Scots in the north and Hiberno-English in the south.
rdfs:label
  • Mid Ulster English
owl:sameAs
skos:subject
foaf:depiction
foaf:page
is dbpprop:redirect of
is owl:sameAs of