english language
Noun
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An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch;
The official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries (synset 106959794)is a type of: west germanic, west germanic language - a branch of the Germanic languagessubtypes:- american, american english, american language - the English language as used in the United States
- cockney - the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London
- geordie - the nonstandard dialect of natives of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
- king's english, queen's english - English as spoken by educated persons in southern England
- received pronunciation - the approved pronunciation of British English; originally based on the King's English as spoken at public schools and at Oxford and Cambridge Universities (and widely accepted elsewhere in Britain); until recently it was the pronunciation of English used in British broadcasting
- middle english - English from about 1100 to 1450
- modern english - English since about 1450
- anglo-saxon, old english - English prior to about 1100
- oxford english - the dialect of English spoken at Oxford University and regarded by many as affected and pretentious
- scots, scots english, scottish - the dialect of English used in Scotland
same as: english
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