Chapter 9: English around the World
This chapter focuses more closely on the varieties of English spoken outside England. These varieties are referred to as World English(es), Englishes, Global English, English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), and English as an International Language (EIL). These names reflect the fact that English is used as a global/international language in addition to having native or near-native speakers.
Useful Links
Varieties of English
A wonderful page with lots of images and maps can be found at the University of Duisburg-Essen site.
The World Atlas of Varieties of English is a wonderful resourc and a video on it appears here.
How varieties of English and Germanic sound can be heard on thies site from the University of Edinburgh.
Corpora
Some of the corpora in the Internation Corpus of English (ICE) are available for free (i.e. Canada, Jamaica, Hong Kong, East Africa, India, Singapore, and the Phillipines)..
The International Dialects of English Archive (IDEA) at the University of Kansas hosts a list of sound files and accompanying transcriptions from across the world.
George Mason University hosts the Speech Accent Archive, which provides recordings of the same paragraph read by native speakers of many different languages, browseable by region and/or L1 phonetic inventory.
Audio
Indigenous Australia has a list of English audio recordings of native Australian stories.
World English links to local English-language radio programs from across the world.
A list of links to pages on many American dialects is provided by Evolution Publishing.
ABC Australia provides text and multimedia examples of Australian English by means of the local news...
... while Radio New Zealand does the same for New Zealand.
This page at York University explores unique features of Canadian English, including vowel raising, by means of recordings.
Grammar Maps
The Modern Language Association's Language Map allows the interested user to examine in great detail the geographical distribution of languages spoken in the United States; broken down by language, county, and ZIP code.
Lexica
Koalanet offers a dictionary of Australian slang.
and a dictionary of South African slang.
Pidgins & Creoles
A wonderful Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures is available here..
Peter Patrick examines Jamaican Creole English.
The Society of Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL) is dedicated to the study of pidgins and creoles.
Endangered Languages
Neither Elly van Gelderen, Tim Gades, nor ASU is responsible in any way for the information provided by the external links on this page, and make no claims as to its applicability or accuracy.