The odd accent of Tangier VA (from AMERICAN TONGUES)
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what language was that arbëresh?
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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.
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Transcribe audio ftw.
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It sounds like the English west country accent...just not quite.
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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!
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You can hear how this slowly turned into the southern accent. Amazing.
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Quint the character from Jaws his accent was based on this dialect
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I've listened to this kind of talk many an afternoon at Gordon's.
Good times.
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i understand them easily
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Born and raised in NYC and I can barely understand these people
vsauce!
TechandTK 2 months ago 43
Its more American than I expected, still very hard to understand though.
RobertBeowulf 5 months ago 31