Yola dialect

Yola
Forth and Bargy dialect
Native toIreland
RegionCounty Wexford
EthnicityOld English/Hiberno-Normans
Extinctc. late 19th century
Early forms
Language codes
ISO 639-3yol
yol
Glottologeast2834
yola1237
Linguasphere52-ABA-bd

Yola, more commonly and historically the Forth and Bargy dialect, is an extinct dialect of the Middle English language once spoken in the baronies of Forth and Bargy in County Wexford, Ireland. As such, it was probably similar to the Fingallian dialect of the Fingal area. Both became functionally extinct in the 19th century when they were replaced by modern Hiberno-English. The word yola means 'old' in the dialect. In modern times, there have been efforts to revive the dialect.