# WIKITONGUES- Simon speaking Cumbrian

Cumbrian is a local Northern English dialect spoken in Cumbria and surrounding northern England.

Transcription and translation provided by Ey-up - my nyam is Simon Roper, and aa's of Cumbrian descent. T'dialect is a sort o' combinyation o' norse, auld english, pictish… the can lin twi it an' modern norwegian. Sa we say 'gan yam' for 'go home', awivver a norwegian wad say 'go hjeme.' S'anyway - when we were bairns - weh and t'marras - we used to gan t'Ullswatter, and t'were snaatan a la'al bit at yan tyem, but t'watter'd nae frostit owwer as't does on t'occyasion. Awivvwer, t'were gae cald, and t'were glisky and o', sa we wore t'kyvals. Nae gev us mek gran' fettle on t'shore. Yan of us, Danny, fell in t'watter an' brayed his sel. Were hareet, tha. N'owt mek wad strike him doon. T'were creukt, cos - yon tyem o' year - t'were february or summat - t'were attercoppen ivvery which way the deek't. An' yan marra - Hilde - se were flaitent o't'. Sa… aa nivver sin a body run sa fast in o' weh leyfe. But t'were yan o' t'last tyem we speeakt cummerlan wid ithers. Acause the were nae supposed to speeak it as a bairn. The were supposed to speeak 'english.' Sa… well, yon were a hard'un. T'is shaff fettle, o' cowse, 'at… sa many… British dialects are gettan sa rare an' la'al. Aa hope they gan on, or t'would be a gran' sheame. Anyway, w'ither marra, Burne, he's a gyamkeaper, works wid… gorcock. He tell'd us a tyal yence; there were a standan lin an' a shiftan lin, an' yan man fr'each shot…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2016
- Runtime: 3 min
- By: Wikitongues
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WIKITONGUES-_Simon_speaking_Cumbrian.webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Wikitongues
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