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A separate historical English dialect from the above Cajun one, spoken only by those raised in the Greater New Orleans area, is traditionally non-rhotic and noticeably shares more pronunciation commonalities with a New York accent than with other Southern accents, due to commercial ties and cultural migration between the two cities.
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]
The Southern drawl is a common name for, broadly, the accent of Southern American English or, narrowly, a particular feature of the accent: the articulation of the front pure vowels with lengthening and breaking (diphthongization or even triphthongization), perhaps also co-occurring with a marked change in pitch.
Plus, her dad is from Birmingham, Alabama, so undoubtedly the Southern accent traveled overseas with them. One Northerner, Kyra Sedgwick, got a nod from some of our readers for her work in The ...
Extinct or near-extinct American English. Boontling "Good American Speech": Mid-Atlantic or Transatlantic English; Elite Northeastern American English; Older Southern American English; American English-based hybrid languages (creoles or pidgins) Afro-Seminole Creole; Gullah language/Sea Island Creole English, South-East US related to Bahamian ...
The classic Southern accent is on the decline, according to a study. The shift toward a mainstream American accent has become more pronounced with Generation X. Science Shows the Southern Accent ...
English accents are strongly influenced by one's primary mother tongue, Afrikaans, or English. A range of accents can be seen, with the majority of Coloureds showing a strong Afrikaans inflection. Similarly, Afrikaners and Cape Coloureds, both descendants of mainly Dutch settlers, tend to pronounce English phonemes with a strong Afrikaans ...
The Southern accent ranked No. 1 in the study, New York accent ranked at No. 2, Californian accent at 3, and Boston ranked No. 5. The data was collected between February 2023 to February 2024.