Basic Variants, Dialects and Vernacular of English
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Basic variants, dialects and vernacular of English
Dialects are linguistic varieties which differ in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar from each other and from Standard English (which is itself a dialect).
Dialects can be usefully defined as "sub-forms of languages which are, in general, mutually comprehensible".[1] British linguists distinguish dialect from accent, which refers only to pronunciation. Thus, any educated English speaker can use the vocabulary and grammar of Standard English, but different speakers use their own local words for everyday objects or actions, regional accent, orReceived Pronunciation, which within the U.K. is considered an accent distinguished by class rather than by region. American linguists, however, include pronunciation differences as part of the definition of regional or social dialects. The combination of differences in pronunciation and use of local words may make some English dialects almost unintelligible to speakers from other regions. The major native dialects of English are often divided by linguists into the three general categories of the British Isles dialects, those of North America and those ofAustralasia.
United Kingdom
British English:
[edit]England
English language in England:
• Northern (In the northeast, local speech is akin to Scots)[2] • Cheshire • Cumbrian (Cumbria including Barrow-in-Furness) • Geordie (Tyneside) • Lancastrian (Lancashire) • Mackem (Sunderland) • Mancunian-Salfordian (Manchester & Salford) • Northumbrian (rural Northumberland) • Pitmatic (Durham and Northumberland) • Scouse (Liverpool) • Yorkshire (also known as Broad Yorkshire) (Spoken in Yorkshire) • East Midlands • West Midlands • Black Country English • Brummie (Birmingham) • Potteries (north Staffordshire) • Telford accent • East Anglian • Norfolk dialect • Suffolk dialect • Southern • Received Pronunciation
Basic variants, dialects and vernacular of English
Dialects are linguistic varieties which differ in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar from each other and from Standard English (which is itself a dialect).
Dialects can be usefully defined as "sub-forms of languages which are, in general, mutually comprehensible".[1] British linguists distinguish dialect from accent, which refers only to pronunciation. Thus, any educated English speaker can use the vocabulary and grammar of Standard English, but different speakers use their own local words for everyday objects or actions, regional accent, orReceived Pronunciation, which within the U.K. is considered an accent distinguished by class rather than by region. American linguists, however, include pronunciation differences as part of the definition of regional or social dialects. The combination of differences in pronunciation and use of local words may make some English dialects almost unintelligible to speakers from other regions. The major native dialects of English are often divided by linguists into the three general categories of the British Isles dialects, those of North America and those ofAustralasia.
United Kingdom
British English:
[edit]England
English language in England:
• Northern (In the northeast, local speech is akin to Scots)[2] • Cheshire • Cumbrian (Cumbria including Barrow-in-Furness) • Geordie (Tyneside) • Lancastrian (Lancashire) • Mackem (Sunderland) • Mancunian-Salfordian (Manchester & Salford) • Northumbrian (rural Northumberland) • Pitmatic (Durham and Northumberland) • Scouse (Liverpool) • Yorkshire (also known as Broad Yorkshire) (Spoken in Yorkshire) • East Midlands • West Midlands • Black Country English • Brummie (Birmingham) • Potteries (north Staffordshire) • Telford accent • East Anglian • Norfolk dialect • Suffolk dialect • Southern • Received Pronunciation