(05-17-2024, 01:12 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: You and @"Ninurta"#2 made me think of Wiki tongues.
Being in the medical profession and living in Florida, has exposed me to a huge number of dialects. I find it interesting how people from all areas always manage to develop a unique sound to the way that they speak.
Wiki tongues or transitional tribal speak?
https://youtube.com/@wikitongues?si=h4B3MoU9t6wbOlb9
Some of the toughest American dialects I've ever heard are Gullah from the coastal islands of South Carolina, and the language of the lobstermen in Gloucester, Virginia. The Louisiana Cajun dialect ain't got nothin' on them for effort to understand!
There once was a movement afoot to have Appalachian English designated as "Queen Anne's English" and have it associated with the English spoken around the time of the first English colonies in America, but I personally think that everything changes over time, and the Appalachian dialects have also gone their own way in the intervening years between colonization and now.
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