East Midlands English

East Midlands English
Native toEngland
RegionEast Midlands
EthnicityEnglish
Early forms
DialectsEast Midlands English
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Location of The East Midlands within England

East Midlands English is a dialect, including local and social variations spoken in most parts of East Midlands England. It generally includes areas east of Watling Street (which separates it from West Midlands English), north of an isogloss separating it from variants of Southern English (e.g. Oxfordshire) and East Anglian English (e.g. Cambridgeshire), and south of another separating it from Northern English dialects (e.g. Yorkshire).

This includes the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland and Northamptonshire. Dialects of the northern parts of the East Midlands usually share similarities with Northern English dialects while dialects of the southern parts have similarities with Southern England and parts of the west have some similarities with the West Midlands. Relative to other English dialects, there have been relatively few studies of East Midlands English.