Language X within scope of language Y

[Peter Constable]

> From: ietf-languages-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-languages-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Jon Hanna


> I've heard, but
> > can't verify, that English as spoken in Northern Ireland is
> > essentially
> > the same language as English spoken in, well, southern Ireland.
> 
> Certainly I would have more in common with someone from the Republic
than
> anywhere in Britain, but some speakers would be more heavily
influenced by
> Ulster-Scots perhaps.

My impression had been that the phonology (accent) of speakers in
Belfast was closer to that of speakers in Liverpool than to speakers in
Dublin.



Peter Constable