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Black Country dialect
Native to
United Kingdom
Region
Black Country
Language family
Indo-European
Germanic
West Germanic
Ingvaeonic
Anglo Frisian
Anglic
English
British English
West Midlands English
Black Country dialect
Early forms
Old English (Mercian)
Middle English
Early Modern English
Language codes
ISO 639-3
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Glottolog
None
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The Black Country dialect is spoken by many people in the Black Country, a region covering most of the four Metropolitan Boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton.[1] The traditional dialect preserves many archaic traits of Early Modern English and even Middle English[2] and may be unintelligible for outsiders. This dialect is distinct from and maintains more traditional characteristics than the dialect of Birmingham, which has been more influenced by standard English due to having been urban for a longer time. It has also influenced the accents of the towns and villages in the counties to the north, south and west of the region.
^"What and where is the Black Country?". BBC. Retrieved 28 May 2014.
^Staff and Agencies Wolverhampton researches Black Country dialect Guardian Unlimited, 27 January 2003
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