I have a standard American accent, what about you?
I also have an American accent. The quality of my voice and the way we pronounce our vowels and consonants is drastically different from those that speak English abroad.
Accent (sociolinguistics)
Even though we both have an American accent, I'm sure ours differ a bit, since we undoubtedly interacted with folks from varying backgrounds as we grew up. I believe I have a Pennsylvanian Dutch accent.
Yes, I wonder why that is
Well, as humanity spreads across a large area, North America in this case, isolated communities form, which introduce different peculiarities to the language used.
Is that from the Amish?
Amish
The Amish (; Pennsylvania German: "Amisch"; ) are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships with Swiss German Anabaptist origins. They are closely related to, but distinct from, Mennonite churches. The Amish are known for simple living, plain dress, and reluctance to adopt many conveniences of modern technology.
The history of the Amish church began with a schism in Switzerland within a group of Swiss and Alsatian Anabaptists in 1693 led by Jakob Ammann. Those who followed Ammann became known as Amish. In the
Accent (sociolinguistics)
In sociolinguistics, an accent is a manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation. An accent may be identified with the locality in which its speakers reside (a regional or geographical accent), the socioeconomic status of its speakers, their ethnicity, their caste or social class (a social accent), or influence from their first language (a foreign accent).
Accents typically differ in quality of the voice, pronunciation and distinction of vowels and consonants, stress,