Cockney

Also known as Cockney English

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.

Key facts

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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Encyclopedic overview

20 sections

Contents

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

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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cockney” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.