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Some Standard English languages #77

Open SoScho opened 8 years ago

SoScho commented 8 years ago

Several standard English dialects, creoles, pidgins, accents, and variants exist. And, several of them are featured in this amazing Glottolog, like Indian English, Sri Lankan English, Hawai'i Creole English, and others. I have numerous additions that you may find valuable, I studied linguistics in Hawaii, so I would definitely love to feed my knowledge towards the project.

Under Macro-English you should add: Bajan English, a dialect of English in Barbados

Under Standard English you should add:

NORTH AMERICA Southern American English[0], under that should be, from east to west; Chicano English[1](Southern California, Southern Arizona, Southern New Mexico, Southern Texas, and Northern Mexico), Navajo English[2](The Navajo Nation), New Mexican English[3](New Mexico and Southern Colorado), Texan English4, Cajun Vernacular English[5](Louisiana and Mississippi), Appalachian English[6](the Appalachia mountains in North America), and Hoi Toider7.

References; [0]Annotated Bibliography of Southern American English by James B. McMillan, ‎Michael Montgomery [1]Chicano English: An Ethnic Contact Dialect by Joyce Penfield, ‎Jacob Ornstein-Galicia [2]Language Shift Among the Navajos by Deborah House [3]New Mexican English by Heaven Sent Gaming [4]The Regional Vocabulary of Texas by E. Bagby Atwood [5]Cajun Vernacular English: Informal English in French Louisiana by Ann Martin Scott [6]Appalachia Inside Out: Culture and custom by Robert J. Higgs, ‎Ambrose N. Manning, ‎Jim Wayne Miller [7]Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks by Walt Wolfram

I will suggest some Northern American English dialects, that I can find verifiable articles for. But that will be at a later date. 1, 2 and 3 can be classified as Southwestern American English, but the rest are generally referred to by scholars as Southern American English. This is a great project, thank goodness that you people are categorizing all of our world's beautiful languages.

haspelmath commented 8 years ago

Many thanks for these suggestions. Yes, with regard to dialects and other varieties, Glottolog is not complete (yet). We hope to be able to make it more systematic at some point.