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This is a '''list of varieties of the English language.'''
Dialects are varieties differing in Pronunciation, Vocabulary and Grammar not to be confused with the Regional_accents_of_English_speakers, which mark speakers as members of groups by their various pronunciations of the Standard_language.
{{English_dialects}}
==International classifications==
*International_English ''or'' World English
*Commonwealth_English
*North_American_English
*Mid-Atlantic_English
*South_Asian_English
*East_Asian_English
==Europe==
*European_English
*British_English (BrE)
** England (English_English (EngEng))
*** Received_Pronunciation (Queen's English, BBC English)
*** Northern_English
**** Northumberland (Geordie)
**** Durham (Pitmatic)
**** Cumbrian
**** Yorkshire (Tyke)
**** Lancashire
**** Merseyside (see also Scouse)
*** Midlands_English
**** East
***** Derbyshire
***** Nottinghamshire
***** Lincolnshire
***** Leicestershire
**** West
***** Black Country (Yam Yam)
***** Birmingham (Brummie)
***** Potteries (North Staffordshire)
***** Hertfordshire
***** Warwickshire
***** Worcestershire
*** East_Anglian_English
**** Norfolk_dialect (Broad Norfolk)
**** Suffolk_Dialect
*** Southern_English
****Estuary_English
****Cockney (London)
****Patawa (Immigrant groups of London)
**** Somerset
**** Devon
**** Cornwall
**** Dorset
** Scotland
***Scottish_English
***Highland_English
** Wales
***Welsh_English
***Pembrokeshire_Dialect
**Ireland (Republic_of_Ireland and Northern_Ireland)
***Hiberno-English
***Mid_Ulster_English
**Isle_of_Man
***Manx_English
==North America==
*American_English (AmE)
**Cultural
***African-American_Vernacular_English (AAVE)
***General_American
***Nuyorican_English
***Hawaiian_Pidgin_English
***Chicano_English
***Native_American_English (Amerindian English) (see also subtypes below)
***Pennsylvania_Dutchified_English
***Yinglish
**Regional
***Appalachian_English
***Baltimorese
***Boston English
***California_English
***Coastal_Southeast_English (Charleston,_South_Carolina, Savannah,_Georgia area)
***Hawaiian_English
***Hawaiian_Pidgin
***Hayna_Valley_English (Scranton,_Pennsylvania-area)
***Hudson_Valley_English (Albany,_New_York-area)
***Inland_North_American (Lower_peninsula_of_Michigan, Chicago and upstate New_York)
***Louisianian_English
***New_York-New_Jersey_English
***North_Central_American_English (includes Minnesota, North_Dakota and some of South_Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan and Iowa)
***North_Midlands_English (thin swath from Nebraska to Ohio)
***Philadelphia-area_English
***Pittsburgh_English
***Providence-area English
***South_Midlands_English (thin swath from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania)
***Southern_American_English
***Southern_Highland_English
***St._Louis-area_English
***Western_American_English
***Wisconsin-Illinois_dialect
***Yat_(New_Orleans)
*Bermudian_English
*Canadian_English
**Native_American_English (Amerindian_English)
**Quebec_English
**Newfoundland_English
**Toronto English
**Ottawa_Valley_Twang
*Native_American_English (Amerindian English)
**Mojave_English
**Isletan_English
**Tsimshian_English
**Lumbee_English
**Tohono_O'odham_English
**Inupiaq_English
==Caribbean==
*Caribbean_English
**Anguillan_English
**Trinidadian_English
*Jamaican_English
==Asia==
*Hong_Kong_English
*Indian_English
*Malaysian_English (MyE)
*Philippine_English
*Singapore English
*Sri_Lankan_English (SLE)
==Africa==
*Liberian_English
*Malawian_English
*South_African_English
==Oceania==
*Australian_English (AuE)
**South_Australian_English
**Western_Australian_English
**Australian_Aboriginal_English
*Fijian_English
*New_Zealand_English
==Constructed==
*Basic_English
*E-prime
*Globish
*Special_English
*European_English
==Sign languages based on English==
{{mainarticle|Manually Coded English}}
* British Signed English
* US Signed_Exact_English (SEE)
* Australasian Signed English
==Pidgins and creoles==
*Bislama
*Cameroonian_Pidgin_English
*Canton_English
*Gullah
*Hawaiian_Pidgin
*Krio
*Nigerian_Pidgin
*Norfuk
*Tok_Pisin
*Miskito_Coastal_Creole
==The "Ishes"==
While not technically dialects, these variants may nonetheless be of interest to students of global English. Most are not genuine Mixed_languages, but rather instances of heavy Code-switching between English and another language. Some have stabilized into local dialects of English spoken by first-language English speakers. Greeklish and Pinglish might appear to be similar but are in fact Transliteration methods.
*Benglish (Bengali English)
*Chinglish (Chinese English)
*Danglish (Danish English)
*Dunglish (Dutch English)
*Englog (Filipino English)
*Engrish (Japanese English)
*Finglish (Finnish English)
*Franglais (French English)
*Genglish/Ginglish/Germish/Pseudo-Anglicism (German English)
*Hinglish (Hindi English)
*Hunglish (Hungarian English)
*Konglish (South Korean English)
*Manglish/Malaysian_Colloquial_English (Malaysian English)
*Runglish (Russian English)
*Serblish (Serbian English)
*Singlish (Singaporean English)
*Spanglish/Nuyorican (Spanish English)
*Swenglish (Swedish English)
*Taglish (Filipino English)
*Tanglish (Tamil English)
*Tinglish/Thailish (Thai English)
*Vinish (Vietnamese English)
*Yeshivish (Yeshiva English)
*Yinglish (Yiddish English)
==See also==
*History_of_the_English_language
*Old English
*Middle_English
*Early_Modern_English
*Modern_English
*Macaronic
==External links==
* American Dialects
* BBC sound archive of accents in the British Isles
* International Dialects of English Archive
* Runglish
* Regional Accents for the Non-Expert
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