Editing Regional accents of English (section)

===India and South Asia===
{{Main|Indian English|Pakistani English|Bangladeshi English|Sri Lankan English|Nepalese English}}

A number of distinct dialects of English are spoken in South Asia. There are many languages spoken in South Asia like [[Nepali language|Nepali]], [[Hindi]], [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]], [[Rajasthani language|Rajasthani]], [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]], [[Balochi language|Balochi]], [[Pashto language|Pashto]], [[Assamese language|Assamese]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Bhojpuri language|Bhojpuri]], [[Gujarati language|Gujarati]], [[Kannada language|Kannada]], [[Kashmiri language|Kashmiri]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Odia language|Odia]], [[Maithili Language|Maithili]], [[Malayalam language|Malayalam]], [[Sinhala language|Sinhala]], [[Tamil language|Tamil]], [[Telugu language|Telugu]], [[Tulu language|Tulu]], [[Urdu]] and many more, creating a variety of accents of English. Accents originating in this part of the world tend to display several distinctive features, including:
* [[timing (linguistics)|syllable-timing]], in which a roughly equal time is allocated to each syllable, akin to the English of Singapore and Malaysia. Elsewhere, English speech timing is based predominantly on stress.
* "sing-song" pitch, somewhat reminiscent of those of [[Welsh English]]
* retroflexion of "t" and "d"