California English

California English
California English
Region	United States of America; (California)
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Ingvaeonic Anglo–Frisian Anglic English North American English American English Western American English California English; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Old English Middle English Early Modern English ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None
IETF	en-u-sd-usca

California English (or Californian English) collectively refers to varieties of American English native to California. As California became one of the most ethnically diverse U.S. states, English speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds began to pick up different linguistic elements from one another and also developed new ones; the result is both divergence and convergence within Californian English. However, linguists who studied English before and immediately after World War II tended to find few, if any, patterns unique to California, and even today most California English still exhibits a General or Western American accent.

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