What is the name of this dialect/accent South London teenagers are speaking ?

Ive noticed this dialect/accent developing here in South London over the last decade or so - to my ear it's a mix of 'traditional' working class Sarf London, some kind of West Indian patois and maybe some other influences (African-American rap would be a strong contender).





Has this been recognised and named by linguists?





A link to some further reading would be good.





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VV What Graham H said. Everyone in West Sussex, puts on a South London accent. To make themselves seem hard! Makes me laugh. Cos I'm actually from South London.

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The previous answerer is correct to a certain extent; people don't normally ';make up'; their own accent.I have noticed, however, that young people in my area - about 25 miles South of London in West Sussex - DO deliberately use this accent speaking to each other; it's not natural, as can be deduced from the fact that when they speak to their parents or are being polite to strangers - (I'm happy to say that is still common) - they speak in the local accent; nowadays, by the way, the ';local'; accent is ';Estuary English';, which extends from Kent to Essex and over a good deal of the rest of Southern England.





Pee-wee - I'm afraid Cockney is almost extinct, and it's certainly not spoken in South London - and never was.
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i dont know, people dont make up the accent


it's just the way we grew up, just started sounding like that





i dont think american rap has any effect well if it does it's very little anyway.





words just pop up and everyone is saying it ';seen or skeen';



I hope not! Trouble also is that they try to write in it on here, and it's being used in pop songs-wit chew- for with you. Leona Lewis is on example.
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Would the answer be Cockney





Pee - Wee