The four main dialectal forms of Old English were Mercian, Northumbrian, <answer>Kentish</answer>, and West Saxon. Mercian and Northumbrian are together referred to as Anglian. In terms of geography the Northumbrian region lay north of the Humber River; the Mercian lay north of the Thames and South of the Humber River; West Saxon lay south and southwest of the Thames; and the smallest, <answer>Kentish</answer> region lay southeast of the Thames, a small corner of England. The <answer>Kentish</answer> region, settled by the Jutes from Jutland, has the scantiest literary remains.
Which of the Old English dialects covered the smallest geograhical region?
Kentish