Home›Dialects and Varieties›Parent LanguageBrowse ByParent LanguageThis dimension links a dialect or variety back to the single language it belongs to. Wikipedia describes American English as "the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States," a phrase that ties the variety to its parent language in one line. Browsing by parent language gathers every recognized variety of one language in a single place.Parent LanguageComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)Parent LanguageFilter Results14 entriesRegionAllAcadia (1)Acadiana (1)Africa (3)Asia (6)Australia (1)Belgium (1)Canada (1)Dalmatia (1)England (1)Europe (8)Galicia (1)Haryana (1)Liverpool (1)London (1)Mesopotamia (1)Netherlands (1)New England (1)Newcastle upon Tyne (1)North America (3)Peru (1)Rajasthan (1)Saxony (1)Scotland (1)Siberia (1)South America (2)Southern United States (1)Swabia (1)Terai (1)The Basque Country (1)The Caribbean (1)The Hejaz (1)The Maghreb (1)Tyrol (1)United Kingdom (1)Uttar Pradesh (1)Variety KindAllCreole Language (1)Ethnolect (1)Pidgin (1)Regional Dialect (14)Sociolect (1)Attested From (Year)All75 BCE (1)125 (1)301 (1)450 (1)601 (1)700 (1)765 (1)800 (1)801 (2)842 (1)901 (1)1225 (1)1955 (1)Attested To (Year)All750 (1)Difficulty for an English SpeakerAllCategory I (5)Category II (1)Category III (1)Category IV (5)ISO 639-3 CodeAllara (1)cmn (1)deu (1)eng (1)fra (1)hin (1)ja (1)ko (1)lat (1)nld (1)por (1)ru (1)spa (1)swe (1)Speaker CountAll0 (1)10,000,000 (1)25,000,000 (1)81,000,000 (1)123,000,000 (1)135,000,000 (1)154,000,000 (1)267,000,000 (1)274,000,000 (1)312,000,000 (1)345,000,000 (1)560,000,000 (1)941,000,000 (1)1,500,000,000 (1)StatusAllLiturgical / Learned Use Only (1)Living (13)ToneAllNot Tonal (7)Tonal (2)Word OrderAllOther (2)SOV (4)SVO (7)Show ResultsBrowseCompareArabicParent Language8 entriesDutchParent Language2 entriesEnglishParent Language19 entriesFrenchParent Language5 entriesGermanParent Language5 entriesHindiParent Language3 entriesJapaneseParent Language3 entriesKoreanParent Language5 entriesLatinParent Language3 entriesMandarin ChineseParent Language5 entriesPortugueseParent Language3 entriesRussianParent Language3 entriesSpanishParent Language9 entriesSwedishParent Language1 entryComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.