Dialects of English in the UK

1. Northern (In the North East, local speech is akin to Scots)

1.1. Cheshire

1.2. Cumbrian (including Barrovian in Barrow-in-Furness)

1.3. Geordie (Tyneside)

1.4. Hartlepudlian (Hartlepool)

1.5. Lancastrian (Lancashire)

1.6. Mackem (Sunderland)

1.7. Mancunian (Greater Manchester)

1.8. Northumbrian (Northumberland and northern County Durham)

1.9. Pitmatic (former mining communities of Northumberland and County Durham)

1.10. Scouse (Merseyside)

1.11. Smoggie (Teesside)

1.12. Yorkshire

2. West Midlands

2.1. Black Country

2.2. Brummie (Birmingham)

2.3. Potteries (north Staffordshire)

2.4. Coventry

3. West Country

3.1. Anglo-Cornish

3.2. Bristolian

3.3. Janner (Plymouth)

3.4. Dorset

4. RP (Queen's English, Standard English)

5. Southern

5.1. Cockney (working-class London and surrounding areas)

5.2. Essaxon (Essex)

5.3. Estuary (middle-class London, Home Counties and Hampshire)

5.4. Pompey dialect (Portsmouth)

5.5. Kentish (Kent)

5.6. Multicultural London (London)

5.7. Sussex

6. East Midlands

7. East Anglian

7.1. Norfolk

7.2. Suffolk