Southern American English facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Southern American English |
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Indo-European
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Older Southern American English, Appalachian English
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Southern American English (aka Southern U.S. English or Southern drawl) is a group of American English dialects used in the Southern United States. Southern English is usually used in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia and parts of Florida. Modern day Southern English dialects have been used in states including Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, southern Iowa, south central Indiana, southern Ohio and Kansas.
The dialects are also used in some parts of the Mid-Atlantic States.
In Southern English, people use terms like ain't, you was, been (rather than have been) and that there.
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The approximate extent of Southern American English, based upon The Atlas of North American English
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Frequency of either "Y'all" or "You all" to address multiple people, according to an Internet survey of American dialect variation
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Frequency of just "Y'all" to address multiple people, according to an Internet survey of American dialect variation
