Phonology

Within the core area of East Anglia, the biggest regional differentiation phonologically is between the north and the south. As indicated in Map 1, the northern area includes Norfolk, with the exception of some of the Fens, as well as the northeastern part of Suffolk as far south, approximately, as Southwold. The southern area includes the rest of Suffolk, and those areas of northeastern Essex which are still East Anglian-speaking. King’s Lynn, Norwich, Yarmouth and Lowestoft are thus in the northern area, Ipswich and Colchester in the southern.