Yorkshire dialect has been widely studied since the 19th century. One of the earliest works was by William Stott Banks in 1865 on the dialect of Wakefield. Joseph Wright used an early form of phonetic notation in a description of the dialect of Windhill, near Bradford. In the fragments of earlier dialect work, there seems to have been fewer distinctions across large areas: in the early 14th century, the traditional Northumbrian dialect of Yorkshire showed few differences with the dialect spoken at Aberdeen, now often considered a separate Scots language.