List of dialects of the English language This is a list of varieties of the English language.

Dialects are linguistic varieties which differ in pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar from each other and from Standard English (which is itself a dialect). 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 regional accent, or Received 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 (better called varieties). By continent Europe British English (BrE, BrEng) England (English language in England (EngEng)) North Cheshire Cumbrian dialect Yorkshire (also known as Tyke) Lancastrian Scouse (Merseyside) Mancunian Northeast Geordie (Newcastle upon Tyne) Mackem (Sunderland) Pitmatic (Durham and Northumberland) In the far north, local speech is indistinguishable from Scottish English Midlands East Midlands West Midlands Black Country English Brummie (Birmingham) Potteries South Cockney East Anglian Estuary English Kentish dialect

Jafaican West Country Scotland Scottish English Wales Welsh English Ireland Hiberno-English Yola dialect Mid Ulster English Isle of Man Manx English Channel Islands Guernsey English Jersey English Malta Maltenglish The following are portmanteaus devised to describe certain local variants of English. Although similarly named, they are actually quite different in nature, with some being genuine mixed languages, some being instances of heavy codeswitching between English and another language, some being genuine local dialects of English used by first-language English speakers, and some being nonnative pronunciations of English. A few portmanteaus (such as Greeklish and Pinglish) are transliteration methods rather than any kind of spoken variant of English. Benglish (Bengali English) Chinglish (Chinese English) Czenglish (Czech English) Danglish (Danish English) Dunglish (Dutch English) Engrish (Japanese English)

Finglish (Finnish English) Franglais (French English) Denglisch/Germlish/Genglish/Ginglish/Germish/PseudoAnglicism (German English) Hebrish (Hebrew English) also sometimes used to refer to English written with Hebrew characters Hunglish (Hungarian English) Italish (Italian English) Japlish (Japanese English) Konglish (South Korean English) Poglish (Polish English) Porglish (Portuguese English) Punglish (Punjabi English) Rominglish/Romglish (Romanian English) Runglish (Russian English) Serblish (Serbian English) Spanglish (Spanish English) Swanglish/Kiswanglish (Swahili English) Swenglish (Swedish English) Taglish (Tagalog English) Tinglish/Thailish (Thai English) Vinish (Vietnamese English) Yeshivish (Yeshiva English)