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The Black Country dialect is spoken in the boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton Black Country area. It also influences the accents of towns and villages in the rural counties to the north south and west of the Black Country. It is distinct from the accent heard in the neighbouring city of Birmingham. ==Description== In general, the Black Country dialect has resisted many of the changes from Middle English that are seen in other dialects of British English, resembling particularly Northern English dialects and West Country English. * There is no trap-bath split, so there's no /ɑː/ in words like ''bath'', ''grass'', etc., so to rhyme with ''math(s)'', ''gas'', etc. * /æ/ is uniformly pronounced as (). * Nor a foot-strut split, so that ''cut'' rhymes with ''put'', and both use /ʊ/. * ''NG-coalescence'' is absent, so that ''singer'' rhymes with ''finger'', and both are commonly pronounced with (). * The Black Country accent is non-rhotic, such that ''draw'' and ''drawer'' are near-homophones.〔(), Our changing pronunciation, John Wells〕 * Final unstressed vowels are further reduced, such as /wɪndə/ for ''window'' and /fə/ for ''far''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Black Country Dialect )〕 * L-vocalisation occurs as in Bristol, where final /l/ becomes (), as in () for ''cold''. * Final fricative consonants can be voiced, so that /s/ is pronounced as () and /f/ as (). The traditional Black Country dialect preserves many archaic traits of Early Modern English and even Middle English〔Staff and Agencies (Wolverhampton researches Black Country dialect ) Guardian Unlimited, 27 January 2003〕 and can be very confusing for outsiders. Thee, Thy and Thou are still in use, as is the case in parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire. "'Ow B'ist," meaning "How are you?" is a greeting contracted from "How be-est thou?" with the typical answering being "'Bay too bah," ("I be not too bad"), meaning "I am not too bad." "I haven't seen her" becomes "I ay sid 'er." Black Country dialect often uses "ar" where other parts of England use "yes" (this is common as far away as Yorkshire). Similarly, the local version of "you" is pronounced , rhyming with "now." The local pronunciation "goo" (elsewhere "go") or "gewin'" is similar to that elsewhere in the Midlands. It is quite common for broad Black Country speakers to say "'agooin'" where others say "going." This is found in the greeting "Ow b'ist gooin" (How are you), to which a typical response would be "Bostin ah kid" (very well). Although the term yam yam comes from ya'm (you are) ya/ye is an archaic form of you and in many areas ye (pronounced like yea or ya) is used 'owamya aer kid' 'ar ah'm owkay ta'. A road sign containing local dialect was placed at the A461/A459/A4037 junction in 1997 before the construction of a traffic island on the site. The sign read, in translation, "If you're soft (stupid) enough to come down here on your way home, your tea will be spoilt". This island was completed in 1998 and was the first phase of the Dudley Southern By-Pass which was opened on 15 October 1999. The dialect's perception was boosted in 2008 when an internet video, ''The Black Country Alphabet'', described the whole alphabet in Black Country speak. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Black Country dialect」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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