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The odd accent of Tangier VA (from AMERICAN TONGUES)

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Uploaded by on Feb 22, 2008

From the documentary AMERICAN TONGUES by Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker at www.cnam.com

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  • vsauce!

  • Its more American than I expected, still very hard to understand though.

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  • @majinbuxl

    what language was that arbëresh?

  • i live 20 minutes away from tangier island and i strongly recommend going there to visit, i wouldnt recommend living there.....everyone knows everyones business.

  • Transcribe audio ftw.

  • It sounds like the English west country accent...just not quite.

  • Thank you for posting this! I have always found Linguistics fascinating. My boyfriend is Australian, I was raised in Texas but born in California, and I was a Korean linguist in the military. I love going to Europe every year and trying to decipher all the different dialects!

  • You can hear how this slowly turned into the southern accent. Amazing.

  • Quint the character from Jaws his accent was based on this dialect

  • I've listened to this kind of talk many an afternoon at Gordon's.

    Good times.

  • i understand them easily

  • Born and raised in NYC and I can barely understand these people

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