All raait! Britain's first multi-ethnic dialect

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Linguists have identified Britain's first multi-ethnic dialect Times Online authors Steven Swinford and Laura St Quinton write in an article published yesterday. The new dialect is a variant of English that includes words and sounds from cockney, Jamaican creole, Bengali and other languages.

According to the article, this newly identified dialect is becoming the standard language for teenagers of different ethnic groups to communicate. Linguists expect the dialect to spread and become a firm part of everyday English over the next 20 years.

"Inner-city Londoners are using a new kind of English as their everyday speech, their completely internalised way of speaking, parallel to a local dialect like cockney or geordie. In one group we had students from white Anglo backgrounds along with those with Arab, South American, Ghanaian and Portuguese backgrounds and all spoke with the same dialect.", sociolinguist Professor Paul Kerswill from Lancaster University is cited

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