Manningham dialect

The Manningham dialect, a.k.a. the Bradford-Asian dialect is a sub-dialect of the Yorkshire dialect, spoken and used primarily in Manningham and Frizinghall, with significant users in Shipley and other smaller areas outside Bradford city.

Background

Developing primarily from third-generation British-Pakistanis in Manningham, roughly around the turn of the millennia in 2000, it combines the grammatical and phonological foundation of the Yorkshire dialect, with the heavily aspirated nature of consonants in languages including Punjabi and Urdu. In addition, it frequently omits the Article as well as Prepositions, of which would normally be found in the main Yorkshire dialect. While indeed having been developed within the Pakistani community of Manningham, the Manningham dialect has also spread to the areas of Manningham occupied by the Bangladeshi community, such as Manningham Road and Lumb Lane.

For such a dialect to develop in villages such as Manningham, Frizinghall, and many parts of Shipley and other outer areas of Bradford, is that the areas in question have been subject to heavy segregation from the Pakistani communities and the Bangladeshi community, in whose separation from the native Yorkshire dialect using English community, prevented the cultural and linguistic integrations of the Asian youths of Manningham, which subsequently caused for these youths to draw upon the dialects of their relatives for their learning of the English language.

See also

• Yorkshire Dialect

External links

• British Asian accent