es, since their boundaries are characterized by a large fluctuation, and locales are increasingly invading the area of ​​distribution of dialectal speech. One of the most serious effort was undertaken by Ellis. [4; 86] Although this classification is not without drawbacks, it is generally quite accurately reflects the dialect map of modern Britain and adopted as the basis of many dialects. In general, based on the scheme Ellisa A., modern English dialects can be classified as follows:
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Northern dialects1) Northumberland, North Durham, 2) Southern Durham, most of Cumberland, Westmorland, North Lancashire, hilly part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, 3) East Riding and North Riding of Yorkshire.Medium dialects1) Lincolnshire, 2) south-east Lancashire, sowing - East Cheshire, northern West Darbyshire; 3) northern-west Lancashire, southern, Ribble; 4) the average Lancashire, Isle of Man; 5) South Yorkshire; 6) most of Cheshire, North Staffordshire; 7) most of Darbyshire; 8) Nottinghamshire; 9) Flint and Denbigh; 10) east Shropshire, South Staffordshire, much of Warwickshire, South Darbyshire, Leicestershire.Eastern dialects1) Cambridgeshire, Rutland, North - East Northamptonshire; 2) most of Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire middle part; 3) Norfolk and Suffolk; 4) most of Buckinghamshire; 5) Middlesex, South East Buckinghamshire, South Hertfordshire, South-West Essex.Western dialects1) the west and south Shropshire (to the west of the River Severn), 2) Herefordshire, except eastern part, Radnor, eastern Breknoka.Southern dialects1) part of the Pembrokeshire and Glamorganshire, 2) Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, northern and eastern part of the county Somersetshire, most of Gloucestershire, south-west of Devonshire; 3) a large part of the county Hampshire, Isle of Wight, the majority of Berkshire, southern part of Sussex, app. part of Sussex, 4) sowing. Gloucestershire east. Herefordshire, Worcestershire, southern part of the county of Warwickshire, North Oxfordshire, South-West Northamptonshire; 5) most of Oxfordshire; 6) north of Surrey, north-west of Kent, 7) most of the counties of Kent, East Sussex; 8) West Somersetshire, northern-east Devonshire; 9) East Cornwall, most of Devonshire; 10) West Cornwall. of the main features of contemporary British regional dialects (and dialects of other languages) is their conservatism.or other deviations from the literary standard due mostly not evolution, namely the lack of evolution: the dialects are still many language phenomena of different periods in the history of language, as well as various foreign-language bedding - Scandinavian, Norman, etc . feature of modern English dialects is their variability at all language levels (phonetics, grammar and vocabulary in particular). authors also point to the fact that the characteristic feature of a system of dialects so-called "redundanc...
