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ListofdialectsoftheEnglishlanguage
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Thisisa listofvarietiesoftheEnglishlanguage. Dialectsarelinguisticvarietieswhichdifferinpronunciation,vocabularyandgrammarfromeach otherandfromStandardEnglish(whichisitselfadialect).

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Britishlinguistsdistinguishdialectfromaccent,whichrefersonlytopronunciation.Thus,anyeducatedEnglishspeakercanusethevocabularyand grammarofStandardEnglish,butdifferentspeakersusetheirownregionalaccent,orReceivedPronunciation,whichwithintheU.K.isconsidered anaccentdistinguishedbyclassratherthanbyregion.Americanlinguists,however,includepronunciationdifferencesaspartofthedefinitionof regionalorsocialdialects(bettercalledvarieties).

Contents 1Bycontinent 1.1Europe 1.2NorthAmerica 1.2.1Caribbean 1.3CentralandSouthAmerica 1.4Asia 1.5Africa 1.6Oceania 2Constructed 3Manualencodings 4"Lishes" 5Seealso 6References 7Externallinks

Bycontinent
Europe
BritishEnglish(BrE,BrEng) England(EnglishlanguageinEngland(EngEng)) North Cheshire Cumbriandialect Yorkshire(alsoknownas Tyke ) Lancastrian Scouse(Merseyside) Mancunian Northeast Geordie(NewcastleuponTyne) Mackem(Sunderland) Pitmatic(DurhamandNorthumberland) Inthefarnorth,localspeechisindistinguishablefromScottishEnglish Midlands EastMidlands WestMidlands BlackCountryEnglish Brummie(Birmingham) Potteries South Cockney EastAnglian EstuaryEnglish Kentishdialect Jafaican WestCountry Scotland ScottishEnglish Wales WelshEnglish NorthEastEnglish(atoneddownScouse/Manchesteraccent) Pembrokeshiredialect Ireland

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HibernoEnglish Yoladialect MidUlsterEnglish IsleofMan ManxEnglish ChannelIslands GuernseyEnglish JerseyEnglish Malta Maltenglish

NorthAmerica
AmericanEnglish(AmE,AmEng,USEng) Cultural AfricanAmericanVernacularEnglish(AAVE) AppalachianEnglish ChicanoEnglish GeneralAmerican NewYorkLatinoEnglish PennsylvaniaDutchifiedEnglish Yinglish Regional Northeasterndialects BostonEnglish BuffaloEnglish HudsonValleyEnglish(Albany) InlandNorthernAmericanEnglish(includeswesternandcentralupstateNewYork) MaineNewHampshireEnglish NewYorkCityDialect,NorthernNewJerseyDialect(NewYorkmetropolitanarea) NortheastPennsylvaniaEnglish(Scranton,Pennsylvaniaarea) PhiladelphiaareaEnglish PittsburghEnglish ProvidenceareaEnglish VermontEnglish WawarsingEnglish MidAtlanticdialects WashingtonD.C.MetropolitanAreaAccent(D.C.Slang) Baltimorese Tidewateraccent VirginiaPiedmont VirginiaTidewater[1] Midwest

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InlandNorthAmerican(LowerpeninsulaofMichigan,northernOhioandIndiana,Chicago,partofeasternWisconsinandupstateNew York) NorthCentralAmericanEnglish(includesMinnesota,NorthDakotaandsomeofSouthDakota,Wisconsin,MichiganandIowa) Yooperdialect(thevarietyofNorthCentralAmericanEnglishspokenintheUpperPeninsulaofMichiganandinsomeneighboring areas) NorthMidlandsEnglish(thinswathfromNebraskatoOhio) St.Louisdialect SouthernEnglish AppalachianEnglish CoastalSoutheastern(Charleston,SouthCarolina,Savannah,Georgiaarea) CajunEnglish HarkersIslandEnglish(NorthCarolina) OzarkEnglish PiedmontDialect SouthernHighlandEnglish SouthMidlandsEnglish(thinswathfromOklahomatoPennsylvania) FloridaCrackerDialect TampanianEnglish Texan Yat(NewOrleans) WesternEnglish CaliforniaEnglish UtahEnglish Boontling

Boontling HawaiianEnglish PacificNorthwestEnglish CanadianEnglish(CanE,CanEng) Quebec QuebecEnglish Maritimes MaritimerEnglish CapeBretonaccent LunenburgEnglish West/CentralCanadianEnglish TorontoEnglish NorthernOntarioEnglish EasternOntarioEnglish OttawaValleyTwang NewfoundlandEnglish BermudianEnglish NativeAmericanEnglishes(AmerindianEnglishes) MojaveEnglish IsletanEnglish TsimshianEnglish LumbeeEnglish TohonoO'odhamEnglish InupiaqEnglish

Caribbean
CaribbeanEnglish AnguillanEnglish BahamianEnglish JamaicanEnglish TrinidadianEnglish

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CentralandSouthAmerica
BelizeEnglish Falkland/MalvinasIslandsEnglish GuyanaEnglish

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Asia
BurmeseEnglish HongKongEnglish PakistaniEnglish IndianEnglish Hinglish Punjabi/DelhiEnglish U.P/BihariEnglish Bengali/AssameseEnglish GujaratiEnglish MaharashtrianEnglish KannadigaEnglish TeluguEnglish TamilEnglish MalayaleeEnglish MalaysianEnglish(MyE) Manglish PhilippineEnglish(PhE) SingaporeEnglish SriLankanEnglish(SLE)

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Africa
CameroonEnglish LiberianEnglish NigerianEnglish MalawianEnglish SouthAfricanEnglish EastAfricanEnglish UgandanEnglish

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Oceania
AustralianEnglish(AusE,AusEng) Cultural AustralianAboriginalEnglish TorresStraitEnglish Regional SouthAustralianEnglish WesternAustralianEnglish FijianEnglish NewZealandEnglish(NZE,NZEng)

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Constructed
Seealso:InternationalEnglish BasicEnglish EPrime EuropeanEnglish Globish Newspeak SpecialEnglish

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Manualencodings
Mainarticle:ManuallyCodedEnglish BritishSignedEnglish USSignedExactEnglish(SEE) AustralasianSignedEnglish TheseencodingsystemsshouldnotbeconfusedwithsignlanguagessuchasBritishSignLanguageandAmericanSignLanguage.

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"Lishes"

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ThefollowingareportmanteausdevisedtodescribecertainlocalvariantsofEnglish.Althoughsimilarlynamed,theyareactuallyquitedifferentin nature,withsomebeinggenuinemixedlanguages,somebeinginstancesofheavycodeswitchingbetweenEnglishandanotherlanguage,some beinggenuinelocaldialectsofEnglishusedbyfirstlanguageEnglishspeakers,andsomebeingnonnativepronunciationsofEnglish.Afew portmanteaus(suchasGreeklishandPinglish)aretransliterationmethodsratherthananykindofspokenvariantofEnglish. Benglish(BengaliEnglish) Chinglish(ChineseEnglish) Czenglish(CzechEnglish) Danglish(DanishEnglish) Dunglish(DutchEnglish) Engrish(JapaneseEnglish) Finglish(FinnishEnglish) Franglais(FrenchEnglish) Denglisch/Germlish/Genglish/Ginglish/Germish/PseudoAnglicism(GermanEnglish) Hebrish(HebrewEnglish)alsosometimesusedtorefertoEnglishwrittenwithHebrewcharacters Hunglish(HungarianEnglish) Italish(ItalianEnglish) Japlish(JapaneseEnglish) Konglish(SouthKoreanEnglish) Poglish(PolishEnglish) Porglish(PortugueseEnglish) Punglish(PunjabiEnglish) Rominglish/Romglish(RomanianEnglish) Runglish(RussianEnglish) Serblish(SerbianEnglish) Spanglish(SpanishEnglish) Swanglish/Kiswanglish(SwahiliEnglish) Swenglish(SwedishEnglish) Taglish(TagalogEnglish) Tinglish/Thailish(ThaiEnglish) Vinish(VietnameseEnglish) Yeshivish(YeshivaEnglish)

Seealso
SurveyofEnglishDialects RegionalaccentsofEnglishspeakers

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HistoryoftheEnglishlanguage OldEnglish MiddleEnglish EarlyModernEnglish ModernEnglish Macaroniclanguage EuropeanEnglish Englishbasedcreolelanguages

References
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Externallinks
SoundsFamiliar? EnglishAccentsandDialects AbrowsablecollectionofrecordingsbytheBritishLibrary.

[edit] ListentoexamplesofregionalaccentsanddialectsfromacrosstheUKontheBritishLibrary's'SoundsFamiliar'website Hearandcomparehowthesame110wordsarepronouncedin50Englishaccentsfromaroundthe

AccentsofEnglishfromAroundtheWorld worldinstantaneousplaybackonline American Dialects BBCsoundarchive

ofaccentsintheBritishIsles TranslatetextintoregionaldialectsfromtheBritishIsles Archive

whoohoo.co.ukBritishDialectTranslator InternationalDialectsofEnglish Runglish

RegionalAccentsfortheNonExpert SpeechAccentArchive

|DialectPoetryfromtheEnglishregions

AmericanLanguages:OurNation'sManyVoices :AnonlineaudioresourcepresentinginterviewswithspeakersofGermanAmericanand AmericanEnglishdialectsfromacrosstheUnitedStates. thedialectdictionary.com CompilationofDialectsfromaroundtheglobe

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DialectsandaccentsofEnglishbycontinent
Cameroon Liberian Malawian SouthAfrican Ugandan Burmese HongKong Indian(regional/occupationaldialects) Malaysian Pakistani Philippine Singaporean SriLankan GreatBritain Brummie Cockney Cumbrian EastAnglian EastMidlands Estuary Geordie Jafaican Kentish Lancashire Mackem Northern ReceivedPronunciation Scottish(Glaswegian Highland) Scouse Southern WestMidlands Welsh WestCountry Yorkshire ChannelIslandIrish/HibernoMidUlsterMaltaManx

Africa Asia

Europe Elsewhere

North America

AfricanAmericanVernacular Appalachian Baltimorese Boston Buffalonian California Chicano Cajun GeneralAmerican HudsonValley Midland NewEngland NewJersey NewYorkCity NorthCentralAmerican NortheastPennsylvania UnitedStates InlandNorthernAmerican PacificNorthwest PennsylvaniaDutchEnglish Philadelphia Pittsburgh SouthernAmerican Tidewater Western Yat Yooper Canada CapeBreton Lunenburg Maritimer Newfoundland OttawaValleyTwang Quebec West/CentralCanadian Caribbean Bermudian Bahamian Jamaican Trinidadian

Oceania Related

Australian(AustralianAboriginalTorresStrait) NewZealand Basic International Globish MidAtlantic Plain Simplified Special Standard AmericanandBritishEnglishdifferences EPrime

Categories:Englishdialects|FormsofEnglish

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