British Isles English
E3671
British Isles English is the group of English dialects and accents spoken across the islands of Great Britain and Ireland, including varieties such as English English, Scottish English, Welsh English, and Irish English.
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
group of English dialects
→
variety of English → |
| basedOn | English language → |
| contrastedWith |
Australian English
→
Global English varieties → New Zealand English → North American English → |
| hasFeature |
distinct intonation patterns
→
distinct stress patterns → non-rhotic accents in many regions → regional accents → regional grammar → regional lexical borrowings → regional vocabulary → rhotic accents in some regions → variation in consonant realization → variation in vowel quality → |
| hasStandardForm | British Standard English → |
| hasVariant |
Irish English
→
surface form: "Hiberno-English"
Scots-influenced English → Welsh-influenced English → regional English dialects of England → |
| includesDialect |
English English
→
Irish English → Scottish English → British English →
surface form: "Welsh English"
|
| influencedBy |
Celtic languages
→
Latin → Anglo-Norman →
surface form: "Norman French"
Norse languages → local substrate languages → |
| languageFamily |
Germanic languages
→
Indo-European language family →
surface form: "Indo-European languages"
|
| spokenIn |
British Isles
→
Great Britain → Ireland → |
| subfamily | West Germanic languages → |
| subjectOf |
dialectology studies
→
lexicographical documentation → phonological studies → sociolinguistic research → |
| usedAs | lingua franca within the British Isles → |
| usedIn |
Channel Islands (crown dependencies)
→
surface form: "Channel Islands"
Isle of Man (crown dependency) →
surface form: "Isle of Man"
Ireland →
surface form: "Republic of Ireland"
United Kingdom → |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet → |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.