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This is a 'list of varieties of the English language.' Dialects are varieties differing in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar from each other and from Standard English (which may itself be considered a dialect). British linguists distinguish dialect from accent, which refers only to pronunciation. Thus, any educated English person can use the vocabulary and grammar of Standard English, but different speakers
are said to speak it using their own regional accent, or, in the case of Britain, with the class-based accent known as Received Pronunciation. American linguists, however, include pronunciation differences as part of the definition of regional or social dialects (better called varieties).

Contents

International classifications

Europe

North America

Caribbean

Asia

Africa

Oceania

Constructed

Manual encodings of English

The "Lishes"

See also

References

External links

International classifications

★ International English ''or'' World English

★ Native American English

★ North American English

★ Mid-Atlantic English

★ South Asian English

★ East Asian English

Europe

★ European English

★ British English (BrE)

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★ England (English English (EngEng))

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★ Northern English

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★ Geordie (spoken in Tyneside)

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★ Mackem (spoken in Sunderland)

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★ Pitmatic (spoken in the Northumberland coalfield)

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★ Durham

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★ Cumbrian

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★ Lancashire

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★ Mancunian (spoken in Manchester)

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★ Scouse (spoken in Liverpool and Merseyside)

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★ East Midlands English

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★ Derbyshire

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★ Nottinghamshire

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★ Lincolnshire

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★ Leicestershire

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★ West Midlands English

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★ Black Country (Yam Yam)

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★ Brummie (spoken in Birmingham)

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★ Potteries (North Staffordshire)

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★ Herefordshire

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★ Warwickshire

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★ Worcestershire

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★ East Anglian English

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★ Norfolk dialect (Broad Norfolk)

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★ Suffolk dialect

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★ South East England

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★ Estuary English

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★ Cockney (London)

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★ West Country dialects

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★ Somerset

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★ Devon

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★ Cornwall

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★ Wiltshire

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★ Dorset

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★ Scotland

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★ Scottish English

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★ Highland English

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★ Glaswegian

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★ Buchan Doric

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★ Wales

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★ Welsh English

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★ Pembrokeshire dialect

★ Ireland

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★ Hiberno-English

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★ Yola dialect

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★ Northern Ireland

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★ Mid Ulster English

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★ Ulster Scots English

★ Isle of Man

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★ Manx English

★ Channel Islands

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★ Guernsey English

★ Gibraltar

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★ Llanito

North America

★ American English (AmE)

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★ African-American Vernacular English (AAVE)

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★ Appalachian English

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★ General American

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★ Chicano English

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★ Native American English (Amerindian English) (see also subtypes below)

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★ Pennsylvania Dutchified English

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★ Yinglish

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★ Regional

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★ Northeastern dialects

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★ Baltimorese

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★ Boston English

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★ Northeast Pennsylvania English (Scranton, Pennsylvania-area)

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★ Hudson Valley English (Albany, New York-area)

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★ Maine-New Hampshire English

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★ Philadelphia-area English

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★ Pittsburgh English

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★ Providence-area English

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★ New York-New Jersey English

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★ Nuyorican English

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★ Vermont English

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★ Mid-Atlantic dialects

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★ Tidewater accent

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★ Virginia Piedmont

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★ Virginia Tidewater [1]

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★ Midwest

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★ Inland North American (Lower peninsula of Michigan, northern Ohio and Indiana, Chicago, part of eastern Wisconsin and upstate New York)

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★ North Central American English (includes Minnesota, North Dakota and some of South Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa)

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★ Yooper dialect (the variety of North Central American English spoken in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and in some neighboring areas)

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★ North Midlands English (thin swath from Nebraska to Ohio)

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★ St. Louis-area English

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★ Wisconsin-Illinois dialect

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★ Southern English

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★ Appalachian English

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★ Coastal Southeastern (Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia area)

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★ Cajun English

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★ Harkers Island English (North Carolina)

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★ Ozark Southern English

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★ Southern Highland English

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★ South Midlands English (thin swath from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania)

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★ Tampanian English

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★ Texan

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★ Yat (New Orleans)

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★ Western English

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★ California English

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★ Boontling

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★ Hawaiian English (Hawaiian Pidgin)

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★ Utah English

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★ Pacific Northwest English

★ Bermudian English

★ Canada

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★ Native American English (Amerindian English)

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★ Quebec

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★ Quebec English

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★ Maritimes

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★ Maritimer English

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★ Cape Breton accent

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★ Lunenburg English

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★ West/Central Canadian English

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★ Toronto English

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★ Northern Ontario English

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★ Eastern Ontario English

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★ Ottawa Valley Twang

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★ Newfoundland English

★ Native American English (Amerindian English)

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★ Mojave English

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★ Isletan English

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★ Tsimshian English

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★ Lumbee English

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★ Tohono O'odham English

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★ Inupiaq English

Caribbean

★ Caribbean English

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★ Anguillan English

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★ Jamaican English

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★ Trinidadian English

Asia

★ Burmese English

★ Hong Kong English

★ Indian English

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★ Punjabi/Delhi English

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★ U.P/Bihari English

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★ Bengali/Assamese English

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★ Gujarati English

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★ Maharashtrian English

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★ Kannadiga English

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★ Telugu English

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★ Tamil English

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★ Malayalee English

★ Malaysian English (MyE)

★ Philippine English

★ Singapore English

★ Sri Lankan English (SLE)

Africa

★ Liberian English

★ Malawian English

★ South African English

Oceania

★ Australian English (AuE)

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★ South Australian English

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★ Western Australian English

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★ Australian Aboriginal English

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★ Torres Strait English

★ Fijian English

★ New Zealand English

Constructed

★ Basic English

★ E-Prime

★ European English

★ Globish

★ Newspeak

★ Special English

Manual encodings of English

Main articles: Manually Coded English


★ British Signed English

★ US Signed Exact English (SEE)

★ Australasian Signed English
These encoding systems should not be confused with sign languages
such as British Sign Language and American Sign Language.

The "Lishes"

The following are portmanteaus devised to describe certain local
variants of English. Although similarly named, they are actually quite
different in nature, with some being genuine mixed languages, some
being instances of heavy code-switching between English and another
language, some being genuine local dialects of English used by
first-language English speakers, and some being non-native
pronunciations of English. A few portmanteaus (such as Greeklish
and Pinglish) are transliteration methods rather than any kind
of spoken variant of English.
★ Benglish (Bengali English)

★ Chinglish (Chinese English)

★ Czenglish (Czech English)

★ Danglish (Danish English)

★ Dunglish (Dutch English)

★ Engrish (Japanese English)

★ Finglish (Finnish English)

★ Franglais (French English)

★ Denglisch/Genglish/Ginglish/Germish/Pseudo-Anglicism
(German English)

★ Hinglish (Hindi English)

★ Hunglish (Hungarian English)

★ Italish (Italian English)

★ Japlish (Japanese English)

★ Konglish (South Korean English)

★ Manglish/Malaysian Colloquial English (Malaysian English)

★ Poglish (Polish English)

★ Rominglish/Romglish (Romanian English)

★ Runglish (Russian English)

★ Serblish (Serbian English)

★ Singlish (Singaporean English)

★ Spanglish (Spanish English)

★ Swenglish (Swedish English)

★ Taglish (Tagalog English)

★ Tanglish (Tamil English)

★ Tinglish/Thailish (Thai English)

★ Vinish (Vietnamese English)

★ Wenglish (Welsh English)

★ Yeshivish (Yeshiva English)

★ Yinglish (Yiddish English)

See also

★ Survey of English Dialects

★ Regional accents of English speakers

★ History of the English language

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★ Old English

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★ Middle English

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★ Early Modern English

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★ Modern English

★ macaronic

References

External links

★ Sounds Familiar? — Listen
to examples of regional accents and dialects from across the UK on the
British Library's 'Sounds Familiar' website

★ English
Accents and Dialects— a browsable collection of recordings
by the British Library.

★ American class=wikiexternal target=_blank>Dialects

★ BBC sound archive of accents in the
British Isles

★ International
Dialects of English Archive

★ Runglish

★ Regional Accents for the
Non-Expert

★ Speech Accent
Archive

★ |Dialect Poetry from the
English regions