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,