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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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Wikidata facts

Instance of
sociolect
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dialect of
British English
indigenous to
London
Commons category
Cockney
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