What Does Canadian English Sound Like? It’s all about the vowelsįull disclaimer here: We at Babbel are language geeks, and we get excited by detailed linguistic analyses. That’s why it’s little surprise that it has obvious influences from the United States, Britain and Ireland! At the same time, Canadian English has been developing distinctive features since around the early 19th century, so it’s not just a mix of other accents. The regional dialects of Atlantic Canada are usually not included in the definition of Standard Canadian English.Ĭanadian English is a product of several waves of immigration and settlement over more than two centuries. Some definitions include other factors, such as specifying the variety that is spoken across central and western Canada among middle-class speakers from English-speaking families.
What’s usually referred to as Standard Canadian English is the language variety spoken by Anglophone or multilingual speakers who were born in Canada and who live in urban areas. The term “ Canadian English” is inadequate to describe the country’s linguistic variety - just as we can’t say there’s one true American, British, or Australian English. So what are they? Let’s have a look at Canadian English compared to American and British English. In fact, most people will have a hard time differentiating Canadian English from American English speakers.īut every once in awhile - most famously when Canadians say “out,” “about” or “eh” - there’s no denying that Canadian English has some unique characteristics. ” On the other hand, everyone who has heard an anglophone Canadian speak will notice that the pronunciation is closer to General American English.
On the one hand, Canadians prefer the “British” spelling of words like “ colour” or “ centre. Canadian English seems neither here nor there in the grand scheme of English varieties.
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