Post by Dominicanese on Jan 8, 2017 15:54:49 GMT -4
Southern American English.
What most outsiders percieve as the stereotypical American with their accent is the Southern Drawl or Western American accent with the whole cowboy heritage or agriculture. This English dialect as a whole in itself would be Appalachian & Southern American English. Western American English came from the Southern states from the Western Expansion of the American Frontier Era. So we will focus here on the original Southern Drawl or that Hillbilly twang which would be the SouthEastern states and The Appalachian mountains. I will blow the minds off everyone
Appalachian & Southern American English has it's roots in The West-Country of England which were the first English-speaking settlers to settle in North America and they mostly settled along the eastern sea board of The United States. These already sounded very much like Southern Americans and these are probably the only and last people of England to pronounce their R's. Scots-Irish settlers from Northern Ireland and SouthWestern Scotland then later came to America and they then later became known as the Hillbillies. Germans were there too in early America but they did not leave much influence as they later became minority. This combination between WestCountry British English & Scots-Irish English gave rise to the American Southern accents so in other words it is a Scottish-flavored Elizabethean accent. Minor influences might include East England English, African languages, and French. There are also many words of Native American origin.
This does not leave the fact that the American Southern accents are very diverse but this diversity has to do with the different settlers that came over that might have received a little more of this than that than other states but they all are very similar and have the same origins but to different degrees of a certain influence from said dialects of the British Isles.
This is the American Southern accent broken into 3 main accents (includes Appalachian)
^^ You got to hear some samples ^^
West-Country British English
Scots-Irish English, Northern Ireland, Ulster)
What most outsiders percieve as the stereotypical American with their accent is the Southern Drawl or Western American accent with the whole cowboy heritage or agriculture. This English dialect as a whole in itself would be Appalachian & Southern American English. Western American English came from the Southern states from the Western Expansion of the American Frontier Era. So we will focus here on the original Southern Drawl or that Hillbilly twang which would be the SouthEastern states and The Appalachian mountains. I will blow the minds off everyone
Appalachian & Southern American English has it's roots in The West-Country of England which were the first English-speaking settlers to settle in North America and they mostly settled along the eastern sea board of The United States. These already sounded very much like Southern Americans and these are probably the only and last people of England to pronounce their R's. Scots-Irish settlers from Northern Ireland and SouthWestern Scotland then later came to America and they then later became known as the Hillbillies. Germans were there too in early America but they did not leave much influence as they later became minority. This combination between WestCountry British English & Scots-Irish English gave rise to the American Southern accents so in other words it is a Scottish-flavored Elizabethean accent. Minor influences might include East England English, African languages, and French. There are also many words of Native American origin.
This does not leave the fact that the American Southern accents are very diverse but this diversity has to do with the different settlers that came over that might have received a little more of this than that than other states but they all are very similar and have the same origins but to different degrees of a certain influence from said dialects of the British Isles.
This is the American Southern accent broken into 3 main accents (includes Appalachian)
^^ You got to hear some samples ^^
West-Country British English
Scots-Irish English, Northern Ireland, Ulster)