They’ll hate it and deny it, but it is from the huge influx of African slaves and a southern drawl is simply African English of the 1800s.
here we go...haha
Do you troll everything dumbass?
LOL! Talk about ass-backwards anachronistic thinking.
It was “ebonics” that was heavily influenced by Southern dialects, not the other way around.
Southern dialects come from Scot-Irish brogues (mostly from mountain-dwellers) colliding with more traditional lower English speech patterns and French.
And you would be wrong. Actually, a true Southern accent is closer to English Aristocracy than anything else. A linguistics expert explained it on one of those tv shows on the subject. I am not referring to Appalachian speak, nor the guttural speech of the lazy, but a proper Southern Accent is closer to proper English than any other American dialect.
Oh, and there was no "huge" influx of slaves, ever. It has been well documented that many Southerners rarely if ever saw a slave prior to the war. And they certainly did not interact with them such that their speech was impacted by them.
Since the slaves would have had to learn english from their masters, and not vice versa, it seems more likely the drawl was present in the speech before the slaves learned it.
I once heard a sermon on the radio by the original Bob Jones. I tuned in about half-way through and I figured the preacher was black until the announcer mention Jones’ name at the end.
“They’ll hate it and deny it, but it is from the huge influx of African slaves and a southern drawl is simply African English of the 1800s.”
You are so full of shit it’s not even funny.
Is that right?
but it is from the huge influx of African slaves and a southern drawl is simply African English of the 1800s."
No. Linguistically, the Southern accent is most closely related to the British accent, which might explain why, IMO, English actors tend to do excellent Southern impersonations.
American actors usually screw them up.
That is absolute bullshit. The Southern drawl primarily comes from 1800s Northern England and Southern Scotland speech patterns. This is almost where many in the South came from.
Uh no a lot of the Southern drawl comes from the Irish brogue as many Irish settled Appalachia.
Looks like quite a few folks have served your ignorance up to you.
Make this a learning experience.