Cockney
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Cockney is a dialect of the English language mainly spoken in London, particularly by Londoners from working-class and lower-middle-class families. The term Cockney is also used as a demonym for a person from the East End, or, traditionally, born within earshot of Bow Bells.
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- Language.name
- Cockney
- Language.fam7
- British English
- Language.notice
- IPA
- Language.glotto
- none
- Language.isoexception
- dialect
- Language.ancestor3
- Early Modern English
- Language.ancestor2
- Middle English
- Language.ancestor
- Old English
- Language.fam6
- English
- Language.fam5
- Anglic
- Language.fam4
- Ingvaeonic
- Language.fam3
- West Germanic
- Language.fam2
- Germanic
- Language.familycolor
- Indo-European
- Language.script
- Latin (English alphabet)
- Language.region
- Greater London
- Language.states
- England
- Language.altname
- Cockney dialect
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20 sectionsContents
- Nomenclature
- Etymology of ''Cockney''
- Other terms
- Region
- London's East End
- Bow Bells' audible range
- Blurred definitions
- Dialect {{Anchor|Cockney speech}}
- Migration and evolution
- Typical features
- Phonemic correspondence
- Phonetic realisation
- Perception
- Spread
- Scotland
- England
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Cockney is a dialect of the English language mainly spoken in London, particularly by Londoners from working-class and lower-middle-class families. The term Cockney is also used as a demonym for a person from the East End, or, traditionally, born within earshot of Bow Bells.
Estuary English is an intermediate accent between Cockney and Received Pronunciation, also widely spoken in and around London, as well as in wider South East England. In multicultural areas of London, the Cockney dialect is, to an extent, being replaced by Multicultural London English—a new form of speech with significant Cockney influence.