Manchester dialect

Mancunian (/mænˈkjuːniən, mæŋ-/), sometimes shortened to Manc, is the accent and dialect of English spoken in Manchester and some of the wider Greater Manchester area. It is also the name of a native or resident of Manchester. Described as "twangy" and "euphonic", it is sometimes regarded as one of the friendliest accents in the UK.

In 2007, it was noted that Mancunian had apparently changed the way people from elsewhere in the UK talk through the spread of the city's popular culture, with Manchester accents being prominent in media via the characters of television shows such as Coronation Street and the members of rock bands such as Happy Mondays, New Order, Oasis, The Fall, and The Stone Roses. In 2015, Manchester Metropolitan University produced an accent map of Greater Manchester which showed that the accents of Manchester and Salford were described as "diverse", "rough", and "common", while the word "scally" was also used as a description.

A 2021 article in The Guardian stated, "Greater Manchester is only about 30 miles from east to west but it has long been famed for its linguistic diversity: the rich rolling Rs and extra long 'oos' of the northern mill towns where people looook in coook booooks are a world away from the nasal Mancunian drawl where your brother is 'ahh kid' and words which end in a 'Y' finish instead with an 'eh'."