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A diversity of earlier Southern dialects once existed: a consequence of the mix of English speakers from the British Isles (including largely English and Scots-Irish immigrants) who migrated to the American South in the 17th and 18th centuries, with particular 19th-century elements also borrowed from the London upper class and enslaved African-Americans.
Older Southern American English is a diverse set of English dialects of the Southern United States spoken most widely up until the American Civil War of the 1860s, gradually transforming among its White speakers—possibly first due to postwar economy-driven migrations—up until the mid-20th century. [1]
A Southern accent term usually refers to either: Southern American English; English in Southern England; Southern Accent, the ...
Carter seems to have a modern Southern accent, except for the older features of it being non-rhotic and no GOAT fronting, meaning it might be a kind of transitional Plantation Southern. Wallace has the older features of HAPPY not tensed, high FACE , and wine-whine distinction; the newer features of pen-pin merger, PRIZE deleting, GOOSE fronting ...
As one nationwide study states, the typical Texan accent is a "Southern accent with a twist". [1] The "twist" refers to inland Southern U.S. , older coastal Southern U.S. , and South Midland U.S. accents mixing together, due to Texas's settlement history, as well as some lexical (vocabulary) influences from Mexican Spanish . [ 1 ]
Regional dialects in North America are historically the most strongly differentiated along the Eastern seaboard, due to distinctive speech patterns of urban centers of the American East Coast like Boston, New York City, and certain Southern cities, all of these accents historically noted by their London-like r-dropping (called non-rhoticity), a feature gradually receding among younger ...
Vietnamese-American singer Ngọc Hạ performing at a Tết Festival organized by the Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern California. After 1975, many artists, writers, and intellectuals from South Vietnam left the reunified country under communist rule and moved to the US.
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is an Austroasiatic language spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the official language. It belongs to the Vietic subgroup of the Austroasiatic language family. [5] Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [6]