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The Geordie dialect and identity are primarily associated with a working-class background. [7] A 2008 newspaper survey found the Geordie accent to be perceived as the "most attractive in England" among the British public.
A 19th century dialect map indicating the range of the Northumbrian burr within Northumberland and Durham. The Northumbrian burr is the distinctive uvular pronunciation of R in the traditional dialects of Northumberland, Tyneside ('Geordie'), and northern County Durham, now remaining only among speakers of rural Northumberland, excluding Tyne and Wear.
Pitmatic – originally 'pitmatical' [2] – is a group of traditional Northern English dialects spoken in rural areas of the Great Northern Coalfield in England.. The feature distinguishing Pitmatic from other Northumbrian dialects, such as Geordie and Mackem, is its basis in the mining jargon used in local collieries.
The traditional Northumbrian dialect is a moribund older form of the dialect spoken in the area. [3] It is closely related to Scots and Cumbrian and shares with them a common origin in Old Northumbrian. [4] The traditional dialect has spawned multiple modern varieties, and Northumbrian dialect can also be used to broadly include all of them:
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The Atlas Linguarum Europae (literally Atlas of the Languages of Europe, ALE in acronym) is a linguistic atlas project launched in 1970 with the help of UNESCO, and published from 1975 to 2007. The ALE used its own phonetic transcription system, based on the International Phonetic Alphabet with some modifications.
English: A map indicating the accent of English voice used by Google Translate's speech synthesis in respective countries. Español: Un mapa que indica el acento de la voz del inglés usado por la síntesis de voz del traductor de Google en respectivos países.
A General American accent is not a specific well-defined standard English in the way that Received Pronunciation (RP) has historically been the standard prestigious variant of the English language in England; rather, accents with a variety of features can all be perceived by Americans as "General American" so long as they lack certain ...