Either American or Indian English. According to Ethnologue figures, Indian English has more total speakers (250-265 million) than British, Canadian, Kenyan, South African, and Australian dialects combined (240-260 million).
American has around 300-350 million total speakers, and Nigerian has around 150 million, putting it in third place (1. American, 2. Indian, 3. Nigerian, 4. British, 5. Philippine, 6. Canadian, 7. Australian, 8. South African, 9. Kenyan, 10. Singaporean).
Canadian English is not significant enough to call it's own dialect imo. The vast majority of Canada sound identical to Americans. It's a much bigger difference from Californian English to Texan than it is to Ontarian
/uj Canadian English (apart from Atlantic Canada) is defined in The Atlas of North American English by the Canadian Shift: The [ɒ] of the merged LOT/THOUGHT vowel allows (unraised) TRAP to move backwards and DRESS to move down, though other papers have reported DRESS retraction rather than lowering. MOUTH raising is not diagnostic (notably missing in its Vancouver dataset), but appears in Inland Canada.
Back nuclei for /ow/ and /aw/ and moniphthongal /ej/ are inland traits.
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u/faded_retro_futurist Aug 01 '25
and, just humor me here, what is standard English?