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	English language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		English is descended from the language spoken the Germanic tribes the Angles Saxons and Jutes (Vikings).
		English is the first language in Australia (Australian English) the Bahamas Barbados (Caribbean English) Bermuda Gibraltar Guyana Jamaica (Jamaican English) New Zealand (New Zealand English) Antigua Saint Kitts and Nevis Trinidad and Tobago the United Kingdom (British English) and the United States of America (American English).
		English is the most widely used "second" "learning" language in the world and as many linguists believe it is no longer exclusive cultural emblem of "native English speakers" rather a language that is absorbing aspects cultures worldwide as it grows in use.
	www.freeglossary.com /English_language (2598 words)

	ipedia.com: English language Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes, the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
		English is the most widely used "second" and "learning" language in the world, and as such, many linguists believe, it is no longer the exclusive cultural emblem of "native English speakers", but rather a language that is absorbing aspects of cultures worldwide as it grows in use.
		Written accents are also used occasionally in poetry and scripts for dramatic performances to indicate that a certain normally unstressed syllable in a word should be stressed for dramatic effect, or to keep with the meter of the poetry.
	www.ipedia.com /english_language.html (2458 words)

	Regional accents of English speakers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		English accents and dialects vary widely in Great Britain due to the evolution of the language on the island itself and the fact that it is comprised of several nations (England, Scotland, and Wales).
		The Ulster accent (Mid Ulster English) is spoken in the UK region of Northern Ireland as well as in Counties Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan in the Republic.
		In Zimbabwe, native English speakers (mainly the white minority) have a similar speech pattern to that of South Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Regional_accents_of_English_speakers (2723 words)

	Ask A Linguist FAQ: Accents
		Your accent might give the impression that you spoke some other language before the one you are speaking at the moment (you might speak French with an English accent, or English with a Korean accent).
		The modern accents of Australia are more similar to London accents of English than to any other accent from England -- this is probably because the founder generation (in the eighteenth century) had a large component drawn from the poor of London, who were transported to Australia as convicts.
		The accents of New Zealand are similar to Australian accents because a large proportion of the early English-speaking settlers of New Zealand came from Australia.
	linguistlist.org /ask-ling/accent.html (2604 words)

	English language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		English has lingua franca status in many parts of the world, due to the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the United Kingdom in the 18th and 19th centuries and the United States beginning in the 20th century.
		English is descended from the language spoken by the Germanic tribes (the Frisians, Angles, Saxons, and Jutes) that migrated to the land that would become known as England.
		English is the first language in Australia (Australian English), the Bahamas, Barbados (Caribbean English), Bermuda, Dominica, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica (Jamaican English), New Zealand (New Zealand English), Antigua, St. Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom (British English) and the United States of America (American English).
	www.info-pedia.net /about/english_language (2758 words)

	British English
		It is common in Britain for people who display particularly broad accents to be labeled by terms such as "Geordie", "Cockney", "Jock" or "Scouse." All of these identify a specific regional accent, most of which are recognizable to many of the people in the country.
		Thus by definition, any regional accent would not be considered upper-class and the more localizable the accent, the more it will described as a "broad" accent.
		Accents are often characterized by British speakers themselves as either "posh" or "common" accents.
	www.ic.arizona.edu /~lsp/BritishEnglish.html (1008 words)

	Speech Accent Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The speech accent archive uniformly presents a large set of speech samples from a variety of language backgrounds.
		Native and non-native speakers of English read the same paragraph and are carefully transcribed.
		The archive is used by people who wish to compare and analyze the accents of different English speakers.
	classweb.gmu.edu /accent (50 words)

	AUE: The Audio Archive
		Sound samples are spoken by English speakers from around the world.
		Accent determination by a short introduction with a few significant sentences.
		In particular, there's a large collection of English dialect examples from many different parts of the world at The University of Kansas IDEA site.
	www.alt-usage-english.org /audio_archive.shtml (892 words)

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