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The Cajun accent of Louisiana sounds a lot to me like southern American English as spoken by a French speaker, which historically is its origin.
by retrac 3y ago
The Cajun accent of Louisiana sounds a lot to me like southern American English as spoken by a French speaker, which historically is its origin.
- kcplate 3y agoI live in the south and admittedly have a “detectable” southern accent. To me that Cajun accent is really unlike every other southern accent, so I guess I focus more on the French-ish aspect of it because I don’t really hear the southern in it. I can distinguish the differences between many southern accents, to the point where I could pinpoint a speaker with roots in Georgia/Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, SC, NC, Texas, etc with pretty good accuracy. Others not from the south would tend to lump a lot of them together as a “southern” accent where I see lots of differences and distinctions. Cadence and “y’all” is sometimes the only real commonality among the region.
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