#emergent dialects

[linguisticalities]

Linguists have identified a new English dialect that's emerging in South Florida

It came about through sustained contact with native Spanish speakers who directly translated phrases from Spanish into English, a form of linguistic borrowing called ‘calques.’

[linguisticalities]

The Common Tongue of Twenty-First-Century London

Schoolchildren in the British capital have developed a dialect, Multicultural London English—and my American-born son is learning it.