Inland Northern (American) English, also known in the
United States as the
Inland North or
Great Lakes dialect, is an
American English dialect spoken in a geographic band reaching approximately, east-to-west, from
New York State's
Mohawk Valley to eastern
Iowa, including most of the cities along the
Erie Canal and on the U.S. side of the
Great Lakes region, and also including a geographic corridor that extends across a section of
Illinois, ending around
St. Louis, Missouri. The most
advanced accents of Inland North English are spoken in the Northern U.S. cities of
Chicago, Illinois;
Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
Detroit, Michigan;
Cleveland, Ohio; and
Buffalo,
Rochester, and
Syracuse, New York.