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- basic details -
fine grain dialect comparison -
Venn diagrams -
punctuation analysis -
chronology -
Dialect group | overlap |
---|---|
Central | 32.5% |
Doric | 29.0% |
Ulster | 44.0% |
Shetland | 22.0% |
Orkney | 22.5% |
Southern | 28.5% |
English | 10.0% |
Dialect | overlap | Description |
---|---|---|
ORK | 22.5% | Orkney |
SHD | 22.0% | Shetland |
TON | 0.0% | Tonge |
NNB | 14.0% | North Northern B (Caithness) |
NNA | 7.5% | North Northern A (Black Isle) |
MNA | 30.0% | Mid Northern A |
MNB | 23.5% | Mid Northern B |
SNO | 27.0% | South Northern |
ABN | 31.5% | Aberdeen |
DOR | 28.0% | General Northern |
NEC | 29.0% | North East Central |
SEC | 33.5% | (South) East Central |
WCE | 30.5% | West Central |
DUN | 26.0% | Dundee |
EDN | 31.0% | Edinburgh |
GLA | 23.5% | Glasgow |
AYR | 33.5% | Ayrshire |
LAL | 33.0% | General Central |
SEA | 29.0% | South East (Borders) |
SWE | 30.5% | South West (Galloway) |
DUL | 1.5% | Donegal (East Donegal) |
WUL | 21.5% | West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) |
CUL | 30.5% | Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) |
BUL | 33.0% | Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) |
SUL | 13.0% | South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast) |
BEL | 0.0% | Eastern Ulster (Belfast) |
PUL | 39.5% | Peninsular Ulster (Ards) |
EUL | 34.5% | East Antrim (Larne) |
GUL | 35.0% | General Ulster |
SYN | 40.0% | Synthetic (no region) |