Colonial American English

GPTKB entity

Properties (63)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf dialect
gptkbp:associatedWith Quaker culture
Southern_culture
New_England_culture
Mid-Atlantic_culture
Puritan_culture
gptkbp:characterizedBy regional variations
archaic vocabulary
gptkbp:documentedIn literature of the time
letters and diaries
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Colonial American English
gptkbp:influenced regional accents
American_dialects
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:British_English
Native_American_languages
African_languages
gptkbp:inheritsFrom gptkb:American_English
gptkbp:maintainedBy historical texts
oral traditions
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:Benjamin_Franklin
gptkb:Samuel_Sewall
gptkb:William_Penn
gptkb:John_Winthrop
gptkb:Roger_Williams
gptkb:Jonathan_Edwards
gptkb:Phillis_Wheatley
gptkb:Alexander_Hamilton
gptkb:Cotton_Mather
gptkb:George_Washington
gptkb:John_Jay
gptkb:Samuel_Adams
gptkb:Thomas_Jefferson
gptkb:Anne_Bradstreet
gptkb:John_Locke
gptkb:Thomas_Paine
gptkb:James_Otis
gptkb:George_Mason
gptkb:James_Madison
gptkb:John_Adams
gptkb:George_Whitefield
gptkb:John_Hancock
gptkb:Benjamin_Rush
gptkb:Patrick_Henry
gptkb:Thomas_Hooker
gptkb:Mary_Rowlandson
gptkb:Richard_Henry_Lee
gptkb:Lemuel_Haynes
gptkb:William_Bradford
gptkb:John_Dickinson
gptkb:John_Peter_Zenger
Increase Mather
pronunciation differences
spelling differences
Jonathan Mayhew
grammar differences
Charles_Carroll.
gptkbp:originatesFrom Early Modern English
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Modern_American_English
gptkb:British_English
gptkbp:research linguists
historians
gptkbp:usedBy colonial_settlers
gptkbp:usedIn gptkb:Colonial_America