LANGUAGE - Yola and Fingalian - Germanic languages you probably have never heard of

My thanks to the blogger PhoeniX, who (along with probably most of us linguanauts) recently found out about the Yola language. It's a Germanic language, and before the linguistic anthropologist readers of this blog dive for their notepads and tape recorders and get out the atlases and passports ready to swoop as soon as I reveal the location of the speakers of the language, I'd better say "hold your horses", as it's sadly another dead language.

Where was it spoken then? Interestingly enough, Yola was spoken in an isolated part of Ireland, and the location seems to have lent itself to the preservation of the language through the centuries before dying out in the 1800s. I also discovered the existence of the dead language Fingalian as well, which died out at the same time, but there's far less info on that, anywhere on the web. The two languages are apparently often listed together according to the current wikipedia article on Fingalian, but I would presume that the geographic divide of the two languages would be sufficient to not list them together as a single language, particularly as Fingalian has been suggested as being a vestige of Old Norse as spoken by the Viking settlers in Fingal, and Yola seems to be an off-shoot of an older form of English.

You learn something new every day: two (extinct) Germanic languages that I had never heard of, just when I thought I knew something about all the Germanic languages.