110 Appalachian Accents
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- čas přidán 30. 01. 2021
- We asked our social media followers to send us samples of their accents, and the response was amazing! Please enjoy this beautiful display of accent diversity
*Disclaimer - there are roughly 117 accents featured. A handful of the voices are not "technically" from Appalachia, but we included them anyway because people were kind enough to send them :) - Zábava
The mountains and foothills of Appalachia are beautiful in my eyes, and the culture as well, but the people are its lifeblood and its greatest treasure of all in my very humble opinion. I’m blessed beyond measure to proudly call it “home”. Thank you for the effort to put all this together, because I’m always listening to how people talk in Appalachia and the differences in their accents.
So cool. I loved hearing the differences especially in West Virginia. God I love Appalachia.
Just loved this!! All wonderful accents!! Really enjoyed hearing the differences!
Maryville, TN here. Love all of my Appalachian kin. Gods country.
Ohio part here
Hey neighbor, Seymour TN
As someone who grew up in West Virginia but moved away, hearing all these beautiful accents really made me smile.
So glad to see this 😊
This is a really cool project!!
Very cool project, thanks for putting it together! I've shared this video with the FB A Way With Words page. :)
Thanks!
I'm a Civil War re enacors, for the Southern side. My husband is from Boston Massachusetts. When we went to a re enactment: He would be fine, the first day we were there, at the
re enactment but by the second day he was at a disadvantage...He could NOT interpret a word myself and fellow Southern Re enactors said, to one another. My husband would say, "it took us 3 days, at being back home, before he could understand a word I said."
Then he would laugh... and say, "You and my re enactor friends, did not even realize how we talked.... So I guess I am
bi lingual. Lol lol WE ARE SPECIAL!
I’ve lived in East Tennessee (Knoxville) my whole life, my Dad’s side is from Hazard Kentucky and my Mom’s side is from Grainger County Tennessee but for some reason I dont have an Appalachian accent. People always ask me why I don’t have an accent, especially my friends from Florida who came up here for school
I’m from Knoxville too
I love this. Thanks!
Lots of people from my area in western NC! Love our region ♥
I love mtn accents and also love to hear folks from south Georgia talk. ❤️🇺🇸
Thanks, from the mountains of Georgia
The variety of these accents makes me love my country.
The way some have normalized to NJ in my life makes me lament network TV though...
I'm from Rockingham County Virginia, and Augusta is only a small drive. But, where I'm at against the Massanutten mountain, we speak with a strong accent. It gets stronger the farther into the mountain you go, some of them folks take a day to ask a question.
youre not wrong with the massantten accent! growing up in the shenandoah valley and going to massanutten i remember hearing some of the strongest accents id ever heard growing up
@@isabellemohl5378 Hope you're doing well!
I wonder if I know Josh and/or Jennifer from Middlesboro, or Matt from Cumberland Gap! Cumberland Gap native here. Much love from Appalachia!
I come from Trammel, Virginia. Right in the hear of the Appalachian coalfields of Southwestern Virginia.
Hi, I'm not from the Appalachian area and most of these accents all sounded the same to me, with only very slight differences and that you can contribute to the speaker themselves, their association and up bringing. Sadly, like a dialect analyst once told me, most all dialects are dying out and everyone is getting more of a general American accent.
I can’t quite put my finger on what I noticed, but before hearing their locations, the accents of folks close to where I grew up jumped out at me. Everyone else sounded lovely, but I was much more interested in the voices of folks that turned out to be closer to my hometown. It’s so nuanced, but I think if you’re from any of these areas, you might hear the differences a little more easily.
Outside ears versus inside ears. While they are all similar, I can definitely hear differences that are general to regions, not speakers.
Accents aren't dying out. Regional accent differences are growing, only isolated accents are dying out.
Trained ears can hear the differences! Younger folks are somewhat losing their accents, but don't be deceived. Since they knew their voices were being recorded for a video, some individuals may have subconsciously altered their accents. We do this often; I see it happen a lot when people want to sound more educated, since Appalachian accents have suffered a lot of negative stereotypes in the past.
To add, I am fairly certain the girl at 4:15 uses both her local accent and a "standardized" one. She even makes a lil joke out of it.
You can tell the younger generations are losing the accent. It's a shame this is happening. It's happening fast where I live in WV.
@John Canter i have a similar story, i grew up in rural pa and my dad did too. i took his accent more than my mothers because his tended to be heavier. once i went into school, all of the english teachers would “teach” the voice out of me. it’s started to come back now that they haven’t done to for so long
@John Canter in the world we live in today where almost anything can be considered offensive for some reason it’s still acceptable to call Southerners dumb, hillbillies, make fun of the way we talk, etc in television, movies or just regular banter and no one bats an eye
I'm sad to say I don't have the beautiful WNC Appalachian accent that I love
I blame stupid ashville always trying to act like the progressive states out west, everyone tried to get rid of it and now I got stuck with some halfassed Appalachian accent
@@thatsyaboi8185 nah asheville is just a city, that's how cities are. Knoxville is losin it too.
I am from Harlan County Kentucky
I know where hazard Kentucky is & my pastor is from Hazard Kentucky
I have family from Lee County Virginia
Hallo. Ich heiße Hans. Ich komme aus Sloppy Hog Virginia, und das ist mein Akzent.
🤣Hinterwäldler?
Hallo. Mein Name ist Chet. Ich komme aus Richwood, West Virginia, und das ist mein Appalachen-Akzent bei Google Translate.
I don't think Scranton, PA qualifies. It's way up north near New York. I know the Appalachian Mountains pass through Scranton, but there is no accent.
I’m not sure Any parts of Alabama or Mississippi is considered part of Appalachia.
www.arc.gov/appalachian-counties-served-by-arc/
@@Appodlachia I misunderstood thinking specifically in the Appalachian Mountains and immediate surrounding areas.
These folks barely have southern accents! To my Alabama ears anyway!
That's because it's not southern, it's Appalachian! :)
The worst accent is when someone that speaks mountain English, goes north and tries to talk like those folks. Usually they talk different from us, and the people they've joined.
@Maxine: Sounds like you have quite an inferiority complex.
@@echt114 ..Honey, I don't know what is when you're referring to me. I've spoken my Mountain English for 70 years. Educated. retired from a satisfying career.
@@maxinefreeman8858 I'm referring to the perspective and character of someone who would try to slight someone else as having the "worst accent," apparently because of something else you resent about them.
@@echt114 ..This was back when I was going to school. Some kids, including myself would go up north and stay few weeks with relatives. Some would come back home from summer vacation and we couldn't understand them. Much worse accent than most that were born and raised up north. Some that moved up north, married to someone up there would come back to visit, they try to talk and you could understand the northern husband better than someone who'd been gone a year. It's usually women that does. I know they're probably teased about their speech. I was teased but I never let it bother me. I think it made me want to hang onto my accent.
@@maxinefreeman8858 OK, it sounded like you didn't approve of anyone changing an accent. I've never heard anyone who shifted into unintelligible speech, so I can't judge what you described, but I do like different accents and have always had fun imitating them. On youtube there's a common reaction in the comments under these type of videos (even moreso under "accent reduction" videos) where people will get pissy about it and respond with something like "Why would you ever do that? Don't ever change your accent!" Then they'll go on to trash the accent the person desired. It's really a ridiculous thing because people can still use the former accent anytime they want. Nobody discourages people from learning a 2nd or 3rd language - they realize it's a great addition to your first. So why the defensiveness about learning something much less difficult like an accent? I apologize if I misunderstood your intent though.