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Via a class system. US movies imply you have the same thing over there.
Every language group has a hierarchy of accents, often roughly corresponding to wealth. There is usually a prestige accent used by the wealthy, and which the upper classes mimic. And everyone looks down on rural people, marked by their accent. It's worse in some places than others but it's practically universal.
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The lowest of the low? Based on consonant pronunciation? How can you extract a value judgment from how someone speaks?
There's a bit of "accentism" in Spain. Speaking with a southern accent will (wrongly) mark you as "lazy", "uncultured" or "unsophisticated" to some people. I was born in Castile, so I usually speak "accentless" standard Spanish, but my mother comes from Extremadura, just a couple hours drive to the south, and when I speak to her I involuntarily switch to the extremaduran accent. I don't notice it but other people hea…
My slightly younger cousin’s friend found the way I pronounced things as well as some of my vocabulary to be very funny. When I pointed out that he also had an accent he almost almost wet himself with laughter, so absurd was the idea to him that both of us had accents rather than the one of us who didn’t sound American.
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There's a bit of "accentism" in Spain. Speaking with a southern accent will (wrongly) mark you as "lazy", "uncultured" or "unsophisticated" to some people. I was born in Castile, so I usually speak "accentless" standard Spanish, but my mother comes from Extremadura, just a couple hours drive to the south, and when I speak to her I involuntarily switch to the extremaduran accent. I don't notice it but other people hea…
I have never heard of Castilian Spanish referred to as "accentless" before. The lisp always sounds odd to me. That and vosotros. The vast majority of Spanish speakers worldwide use neither.
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The lowest of the low? Based on consonant pronunciation? How can you extract a value judgment from how someone speaks?
Ask anyone who has a "hillbilly" accent how they're treated by "educated" people.
Nowhere else... just the whole South of Spain. At least the aspiration.
>words drawn from English and languages indigenous to North America. >thought to be Tlaxcalan Indians, who spoke Náhuatl, the lingua franca of the Aztec Empire. Why would a dialect of Spanish in southern Spain have indigenous native American words?
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The Penitentes, an ascetic Catholic group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penitentes_(New_Mexico)
The Crypto-Jews, usually thought to be a hundreds-years-old vestige of Judaism fleeing the Inquisition. The truth is probably more complicated. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2000/12/mistake...
New Mexico is also home to a bunch of different Native American languages and cultures, many of which did not have the trauma of being forced to move to new land and thus have a different relationship with their history.
(This post feels clumsy of me, apologies if as an outsider I mis-characterized something.)
Nowhere else... just the whole South of Spain. At least the aspiration.
>words drawn from English and languages indigenous to North America. >thought to be Tlaxcalan Indians, who spoke Náhuatl, the lingua franca of the Aztec Empire. Why would a dialect of Spanish in southern Spain have indigenous native American words?
They can be found in a recognizable form even as far away as Finnish, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese and Emoji.
Chocolate from Xocolatl
Tomato from Tomatl