This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

Southern Accent Tours

x
Southern Accent Tours
Southern Accent Tours
Southern Accent Tours
Southern Accent Tours
Southern Accent Tours
Southern Accent Tours
Southern Accent Tours
Southern Accent Tours
Southern Accent Tours
Southern Accent Tours
Southern Accent Tours
Southern Accent Tours
Southern Accent Tours
Southern Accent Tours
Southern Accent Tours
Address:
375 Meeting St, Charleston Visitor Center, Charleston, SC 29403-6238

Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a large collection of related American English dialects spoken throughout the Southern United States, though increasingly in more rural areas and primarily by white Americans. Commonly in the United States, the dialects are together simply referred to as Southern. Other, much more recent ethno-linguistic terms within American linguistics include Southern White Vernacular English and Rural White Southern English.A regional Southern American English consolidated and expanded throughout all the traditional Southern States since the last quarter of the nineteenth century until around World War II, largely superseding the older Southern American English dialects. With this younger and more unified pronunciation system, Southern American English now comprises the largest American regional accent group by number of speakers. As of 2006, its Southern accent is strongly reported throughout the U.S. states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Kentucky, as well as most of Texas, eastern and southern Oklahoma, southern Missouri, southeastern Maryland, West Virginia, northern Florida, and southeastern New Mexico. The accent of some Midland American English is documented as sharing key features with Southern American English, though to a weaker extent, including in northern Oklahoma, eastern and central Kansas, Missouri generally, the southern halves of Illinois and Indiana, southern Ohio, western Delaware, and south-central Pennsylvania.Southern American English as a regional dialect can be divided into various sub-dialects, the most phonologically advanced ones being southern varieties of Appalachian English and certain varieties of Texan English. African-American English has many common points with Southern American English dialects due to the strong historical ties of African Americans to the South. Recently, the Southern accent has been receding, particularly among younger people and in urban areas.
Continue reading...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Attraction Location



Southern Accent Tours Videos

Shares

x

More Attractions in Charleston

x

Menu