Ethnicity + MLE

Product of 2 or more people making something through interaction

Ethnicity and race

Shared social identity consisting of cultural practices, language, beliefs and history

Physical characteristics of distinct populations within larger species

Not dominant language in society where someone lives, but it's spoken at home

Speaker switches to different language mid-conversation/sentence

Multicultural London English

Widespread migration from Caribbean to UK after WW2
Influence from West Africa and South Asia as well
Influence of Jamaican Patois

Early 1980s

Young
Working class
Especially African Caribbean ancestry

No H-dropping
Vowel sounds in centre and front of mouth
Long sounds in *right, now, go* and *do*
ee more relaxed
oo in front of mouth (sounds French)
D*eer* monophthong instead of diphthong
th-fonting
Glottal stops

You get me?
Bare
Rass
Mandem

David Starkey

Multicultural Urban British English

MLE = London
MUBE = any area outside of London