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How many different dialects would you say are in America?
Posted on 4/28/14 at 8:42 pm
Posted on 4/28/14 at 8:42 pm
This guy says 25, but others say more and some are more general and say less. However, even with the 24, I find so many variations in Louisiana for example that it's more than that even. For instance, there are many different variations of actual Cajun French spoken that I believe have caused differences in dialects of different areas, and then in New Orleans you have distinct differences you can detect between a person from say Chalmette and someone from say Terrytown or maybe Mid City, etc, and proceed west and there's a noticeable difference in what you find around LaPlace, Reserve, Lutcher, and then BR, or cross the river and listen to people speak from the Lafayette area and then Opelousas. Perhaps they're more subtle differences that people here pick up on more so than someone from out of state might not notice right off, but I think there are plenty more than just 25 different dialects in this country.
What say you?
What say you?
This post was edited on 4/28/14 at 8:52 pm
14
Posted on 4/28/14 at 8:44 pm to Mike da Tigah
bama trash and the rest
Posted on 4/28/14 at 8:47 pm to Mike da Tigah
40-50
Posted on 4/28/14 at 8:48 pm to Mike da Tigah
No Alaska or Hawaii? Hawaii would add at least one more
Edit: Nevermind. On the list, not the map.
Edit: Nevermind. On the list, not the map.
This post was edited on 4/28/14 at 8:50 pm
Posted on 4/28/14 at 8:51 pm to Mike da Tigah
Shah Lawd
Op no mention Lafourche !!
I get what you say though about how different the dialects change in such a short distance. Really speaks to Louisiana and specifically SELA's super unique cultures.
Op no mention Lafourche !!
I get what you say though about how different the dialects change in such a short distance. Really speaks to Louisiana and specifically SELA's super unique cultures.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 8:55 pm to Mike da Tigah
Accent and dialect aren't the same thing.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 8:56 pm to Mike da Tigah
I feel like there are more than 25 in just Louisiana alone
This post was edited on 4/28/14 at 8:56 pm
Posted on 4/28/14 at 8:56 pm to Mike da Tigah
I like how our city/area has its own dialect 
I can usually tell where people are from in South LA by their accent.
I can usually tell where people are from in South LA by their accent.
This post was edited on 4/28/14 at 8:58 pm
Posted on 4/28/14 at 9:04 pm to pivey14
Les Miles has one all for his own self.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 9:04 pm to Fun Bunch
quote:
Accent and dialect aren't the same thing.
That's true, but even in keeping with that, there are no less that three big differences in Louisiana from Scots Irish found in the rest of the South to Cajun French, and Creole French, but within both Creole French and Cajun French there are very noticeable differences that come from the various cultures that settled and immigrated the area of South Louisiana. Cajun French isn't even the same language from area to area. It varies quite a bit, and if you think there's little difference from a person from Mid City to a person in Chalmette, you really need to go visit the two to appreciate it.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 9:06 pm to soccerfüt
quote:
Les Miles has one all for his own self.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 9:11 pm to Mike da Tigah
yat and cajun should not be lumped together.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 9:17 pm to Ed Osteen
quote:
feel like there are more than 25 in a popeyes in louisiana alone
Posted on 4/28/14 at 9:32 pm to Mike da Tigah
About 90% of the time, I can tell the city where someone is from in south Louisiana by the way they speak
Posted on 4/28/14 at 9:57 pm to Hammertime
Really?? I'm born and raised in Baton Rouge and everytime I travel outside the state, especially up north, people ask me where's my Louisiana accent??
It's more midwest neutral rather than a southern accent.
It's more midwest neutral rather than a southern accent.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 10:01 pm to Paul Allen
Two dialects only: Northern and Southern
Everything else is somewhere within the two.
Everything else is somewhere within the two.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 10:06 pm to Mike da Tigah
It's over 9,000.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 10:11 pm to Mike da Tigah
I've spent most of my life between Norcal, WA state, and Utah, and I don't hear anything that makes those three, distinct dialects.
Posted on 4/28/14 at 10:15 pm to Paul Allen
I can pick it out if I hear someone on TV, in a restaurant in Charleston, the mall in Dallas, etc. I guess I have been around so many, it is easy for me to pick out each one. Now, I couldn't write down the differences, but they are there for sure
The harder ones to pick up on are BR and Mandeville because, most of the time, they don't have any accent at all
The harder ones to pick up on are BR and Mandeville because, most of the time, they don't have any accent at all
Posted on 4/28/14 at 10:22 pm to Hammertime
Yeah, Baton Rouge seems to be notably absent from an established identifiable accent. It's really bizarre. Several girls I know born and raised in BR sound like valley girls
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