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Legacies of Colonial English. Studies in Transported Dialects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-17507-4. Fischer, Steven Roger (2004), History of Language, Reaktion Books, ISBN 978-1-86189-594-3. Crystal, David (2003). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (Second ed.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press ...
Caribbean English (15 P) I. Indian English (7 C, ... South Asian English (3 C, 2 P) W. Welsh English ... Port Talbot English; Potteries dialect; English language in ...
Estimates of the numbers of second language and foreign-language English speakers vary greatly from 470 million to more than 1 billion, depending on how proficiency is defined. [9] Linguist David Crystal estimates that non-native speakers now outnumber native speakers by a ratio of 3 to 1. [87]
The English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) is the most comprehensive dictionary of English dialects ever published, compiled by the Yorkshire dialectologist Joseph Wright (1855–1930), with strong support by a team and his wife Elizabeth Mary Wright (1863–1958). [1] The time of dialect use covered is, by and large, the Late Modern English period ...
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Northeastern Neo-Aramaic dialects (2 C, 1 P) Norwegian dialects (18 P) P. ... Pages in category "Dialects by language" ... This page was last edited on 15 February ...
English dialects differ greatly in their pronunciation of open vowels. In Received Pronunciation, there are four open back vowels, /æ ɑː ɒ ɔː/, but in General American there are only three, /æ ɑ ɔ/, and in most dialects of Canadian English only two, /æ ɒ/. Which words have which vowel varies between dialects.
The English language spoken and written in England encompasses a diverse range of accents and dialects. The language forms part of the broader British English, along with other varieties in the United Kingdom. Terms used to refer to the English language spoken and written in England include English English [1] [2] and Anglo-English. [3] [4]