Texas English

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dialect of English regional variety of American English variety of Southern American English

Texas English is a regional variety of American English spoken in Texas, characterized by distinctive vowel pronunciations, lexical items, and influences from Southern, Western, and Spanish-language speech patterns.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
East Texas English	1
Panhandle Texas English	1
Rural Texas English	1
South Texas English	1
Texas English canonical	1
Urban Texas English	1
West Texas English	1

Statements (60)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	dialect of English ⓘ regional variety of American English ⓘ variety of Southern American English ⓘ
associatedWith	Texas identity ⓘ cowboy and ranching culture ⓘ oil industry communities in Texas ⓘ
hasFeature	Southern Vowel Shift features in some regions ⓘ Spanish loanwords ⓘ distinct intonation patterns ⓘ distinct lexical items ⓘ distinctive vowel pronunciations ⓘ merger of certain front vowels in some speakers ⓘ monophthongization of /aɪ/ in some speakers ⓘ regional idioms ⓘ variable rhoticity ⓘ
hasLexicalItem	all y’all ⓘ barbecue with region-specific meaning ⓘ blue norther ⓘ bubba (as kinship or nickname term) ⓘ catty-corner (for diagonal) in some speakers ⓘ coke (for any soft drink) in many areas ⓘ crawdad (for crayfish) in some speakers ⓘ fixin’ to ⓘ holler (for call or shout) in some speakers ⓘ howdy ⓘ lightning bug (for firefly) in many speakers ⓘ mash (for press) in some areas ⓘ mesquite (as common regional term) ⓘ might could ⓘ reckon (for suppose) in some speakers ⓘ tump (for tip over) in some speakers ⓘ yonder in some rural speech ⓘ y’all ⓘ
hasSubvariety	Texas English self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: East Texas English Texas English self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Panhandle Texas English Texas English self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Rural Texas English Texas English self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: South Texas English Texas English self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Urban Texas English Texas English self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: West Texas English
hasWritingSystem	Latin alphabet ⓘ surface form: Latin script
influencedBy	Chicano English ⓘ Mexican Spanish ⓘ Southern American English ⓘ Spanish ⓘ Western American English ⓘ
languageBranch	Germanic languages ⓘ
languageFamily	Indo-European language family ⓘ surface form: Indo-European languages
languageSubbranch	West Germanic languages ⓘ
overlapsWith	South Midland American English ⓘ Southwestern American English ⓘ
partOf	American English ⓘ
spokenIn	Texas ⓘ
spokenInCountry	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
studiedInField	dialectology ⓘ sociolinguistics ⓘ variationist linguistics ⓘ
typicalRegister	informal speech ⓘ regional media ⓘ
usedBy	long-term migrants to Texas ⓘ residents of Texas ⓘ