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  2. List of dialects of English - Wikipedia

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    Dialects can be defined as "sub-forms of languages which are, in general, mutually comprehensible." [1] English speakers from different countries and regions use a variety of different accents (systems of pronunciation) as well as various localized words and grammatical constructions.

  3. The 5 Hardest and 5 Easiest Languages for English ... - AOL

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    In the Foreign Service Institute’s language classification system, the most difficult languages are at Category 5. These take 88 weeks or 2,200 hours of classroom time to reach proficiency.

  4. North American English regional phonology - Wikipedia

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    Regional dialects in North America are historically the most strongly differentiated along the Eastern seaboard, due to distinctive speech patterns of urban centers of the American East Coast like Boston, New York City, and certain Southern cities, all of these accents historically noted by their London-like r-dropping (called non-rhoticity), a feature gradually receding among younger ...

  5. List of prestige dialects - Wikipedia

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    Tagalog - The Manila dialect is the prestige dialect among many native speakers due to the city's economic importance and the dialect's implication of wealth and high social status. This dialect is the basis of Filipino, the standardised official and national language of the Philippines. The Bulacan dialect is sometimes held as a higher ...

  6. Regional accents of English - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Category:Dialects of English - Wikipedia

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    Language portal; This category contains both accents and dialects specific to groups of speakers of the English language. General pronunciation issues that are not specific to a single dialect are categorized under the English phonology category.

  8. Manchester dialect - Wikipedia

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    Manchester dialect or Manchester English, known informally as Mancunian (/ m æ n ˈ k j uː n i ə n / man-KEW-nee-ən) or Manc, is the English accent and dialect variations native to Manchester and some of the Greater Manchester area of England.

  9. 40 of the Hardest Tongue Twisters in the English Language - AOL

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    And if you want to ease into these hard tongue twisters, try these tongue twisters for kids first. The post 40 of the Hardest Tongue Twisters in the English Language appeared first on Reader's Digest.