United States

U.S. language: The role of language as unifier of a state, its variations and uses in a country composed for 50 subnational entities.











































The language in the United States
It is called language to the system of association between ideas and sounds or gestures that each human group possess. This system has thefollowing components:
• Phonology (sounds)
• Morphology (words)
• Syntax (own grammar)
• Semantics (meanings)
• Pragmatics (cultural meanings etc.)
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Dialectal variations
Because of its large size and the varied ethnic backgrounds of its population of over 315 million people, U.S has a lot of dialects. U.S is divided into four geographical regions, this regions are geographic areas which include multiple states, There are approximately 26 regional accents, according to information from the American Society of Dialects.http://aschmann.net/AmEng/#SmallMapUnitedStates
(Región Noreste)
(Nueva Inglaterra)
Maine
Nuevo Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
(Atlántico Medio)
Nueva York
Pensilvania
Nueva Jersey
Región 2 (Región Medio Oeste)
División 3 (Centro Noreste)
Wisconsin
Míchigan
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
División 4 (Centro Noroeste)
Dakota del Norte
Dakota del Sur
NebraskaKansas
Minnesota
Iowa
Misuri
Región 3 (Región Sur)
Division 5 (Atlántico Sur)
Delaware
Maryland
Distrito de Columbia
Virginia
Virginia Occidental
Carolina del Norte
Carolina del Sur
Georgia
Florida
División 6 (Centro Sureste)
Kentucky
Tennessee
Misisipi
Alabama
División 7 (Centro Suroeste)
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Luisiana
Región 4 (Región Oeste)
División 8 (MountainStates)
Idaho
Montana
Wyoming
Nevada
Utah
Colorado
Arizona
Nuevo México
División 9 (Pacífico)
Alaska
Washington
Oregón
California
Hawái


Midwestern United States
The region consists of 12 states in the north-central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota,Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.
The accents of the region aregenerally distinct from those of the South and of the urban areas of the American Northeast. To a lesser degree, they are also distinct from the accent of theAmerican West.
The accent characteristic of most of the Midwest is considered by many to be that of "standard" American English or General American. This accent is preferred by many national radio and television broadcasters.[63]
This mayhave started because many prominent broadcast personalities—such as Walter Cronkite, Harry Reasoner, Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Rush Limbaugh, Tom Brokaw, John Madden, and Casey Kasem—came from this region and so created this perception. A November 1998 National Geographic article attributed the high number of telemarketing firms in Omaha to the "neutral accents" of the area's inhabitants.Currently, many cities in the Great Lakes region are undergoing the Northern cities vowel shift away from the standard pronunciation of vowels.[64] ^ Gewertz, Ken (12 December 2002). "Standing on line at the bubbler with a hoagie in my hand". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 11 August 2010.
The dialect of Minnesota, western Wisconsin, much of North Dakota and Michigan's Upper Peninsula is referred to asthe Upper Midwestern Dialect (or "Minnesotan"), and has Scandinavian andCanadian[citation needed] influences.
Missouri has elements of three dialects, specifically: Northern Midland, in the extreme northern part of the state, with a distinctive variation in St. Louis and the surrounding area; Southern Midland, in the majority of the state; and Southern, in the southwestern and southeastern parts...