The English of the Appalachian mountains across West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and western North Carolina. Preserves several archaic Scotch-Irish features lost in other US varieties.
- Spoken in
- Approximate centre
- 38.35°, -81.63°
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Appalachian English vs Southern American English
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Southern Drawl
The dialects of the US South, characterised by the Southern Vowel Shift, the pin-pen merger, and a distinct lexical tradition.
- Spoken in
- Approximate centre
- 33.75°, -84.39°
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DialectAppalachian EnglishThe English of the Appalachian mountains across West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and western North Carolina. Preserves several archaic Scotch-Irish features lost in other US varieties.DialectSouthern American EnglishThe dialects of the US South, characterised by the Southern Vowel Shift, the pin-pen merger, and a distinct lexical tradition.CompareAfrican American Vernacular English vs Appalachian EnglishAtlasExplore the atlasRead the full picture of English and the dialects within it.