East Anglian English is a dialect of English spoken in East Anglia. This easternmost area of England was probably home to the first-ever form of language which can be called English. East Anglian English has had a very considerable input into the formation of Standard English, and contributed importantly to the development of American English and (to a lesser extent) Southern Hemisphere Englishes^{citation needed}; it has also experienced multilingualism on a remarkable scale. However, it has received little attention from linguistic scholars over the years.

East Anglian English contains

• Norfolk dialect (Broad Norfolk)
• Suffolk dialect
• Cambridgeshire dialect

See also

• List of dialects of the English language

External links

• Sounds Familiar? – Listen to examples of regional accents and dialects from across the UK on the British Library's 'Sounds Familiar' website