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- basic details -
fine grain dialect comparison -
Venn diagrams -
punctuation analysis -
chronology -
Dialect group | overlap |
---|---|
Central | 31.5% |
Doric | 27.0% |
Ulster | 25.0% |
Shetland | 25.0% |
Orkney | 26.0% |
Southern | 24.0% |
English | 18.0% |
Dialect | overlap | Description |
---|---|---|
ORK | 26.0% | Orkney |
SHD | 25.0% | Shetland |
TON | 0.0% | Tonge |
NNB | 20.5% | North Northern B (Caithness) |
NNA | 7.5% | North Northern A (Black Isle) |
MNA | 25.5% | Mid Northern A |
MNB | 25.0% | Mid Northern B |
SNO | 26.0% | South Northern |
ABN | 28.0% | Aberdeen |
DOR | 25.5% | General Northern |
NEC | 28.5% | North East Central |
SEC | 30.5% | (South) East Central |
WCE | 30.0% | West Central |
DUN | 30.0% | Dundee |
EDN | 25.5% | Edinburgh |
GLA | 26.5% | Glasgow |
AYR | 24.5% | Ayrshire |
LAL | 29.5% | General Central |
SEA | 23.0% | South East (Borders) |
SWE | 32.0% | South West (Galloway) |
DUL | 2.5% | Donegal (East Donegal) |
WUL | 22.0% | West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) |
CUL | 22.5% | Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) |
BUL | 21.5% | Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) |
SUL | 12.0% | South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast) |
BEL | 0.0% | Eastern Ulster (Belfast) |
PUL | 25.0% | Peninsular Ulster (Ards) |
EUL | 22.0% | East Antrim (Larne) |
GUL | 17.5% | General Ulster |
SYN | 20.0% | Synthetic (no region) |