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    Default Are there distinctive Black accents/dialects in Latin American countries, as there is in the USA?

    In Colombia, the Costeno accent of the Caribbean is very distinctive, but it is more a regional than ethnic accent, as Mestizos and even Whites from the region usually have it too. What about elsewhere?

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    For example in Uruguay, the 5% of afro-uruguayans have the same accent of others.
    In Costa Rica they don't have a very disctint accent, although the majority of them use a dialect called "patois" which has the base in english language, because most of costa-rican blacks are descendants of jamaicans.
    They arrived there to work in tropical plantations, they are not descendants of the slaves in colonial periods.
    It's very interesting the fact that they still speaking in their dialect, but I prefer don't continue just by respect to CostaRicaBall, Konan and Vascontelo, because they are ticos and although I've lived in their country for many years I consider them more capable to talking about this interesting subject.
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    In Brazil you have a similar linguistic environment to Colombia, accents will vary greatly from region to region, but not by race, a negro from Bahia will sound the same as a pardo or white from the same region, but different from a negro from São Paulo.

    Social class does have a minor impact on "dialect", in a similar fashion to AAVE in the US but not as extreme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marinus View Post
    In Brazil you have a similar linguistic environment to Colombia, accents will vary greatly from region to region, but not by race, a negro from Bahia will sound the same as a pardo or white from the same region, but different from a negro from São Paulo.

    Social class does have a minor impact on "dialect", in a similar fashion to AAVE in the US but not as extreme.
    The thing is that even many educated African-Americans still have something 'distinctive' in their voices regardless of where in the US they come from, whether it is the expressions they sometimes use or even just the tone or intonation. So there isn't really anything similar in Brazil then?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen View Post
    The thing is that even many educated African-Americans still have something 'distinctive' in their voices regardless of where in the US they come from, whether it is the expressions they sometimes use or even just the tone or intonation. So there isn't really anything similar in Brazil then?
    You mean that "hearty depth" they have? I've noticed that, it sounds like they put more stress on vowels and speak "from the belly".

    In Brazil accents really only vary by region and perhaps social class, within those parameters all races sound pretty much the same.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marinus View Post
    You mean that "hearty depth" they have? I've noticed that, it sounds like they put more stress on vowels and speak "from the belly".

    In Brazil accents really only vary by region and perhaps social class, within those parameters all races sound pretty much the same.
    I cannot properly explain it, but like I said even many educated African-Americans still clearly sound Black even without you knowing they are. To demonstrate what I mean, here is the 90's TV programme Moesha, which is about a middle-class African-American family from Los Angeles (although many of Moesha's friends are more working-class). In the family, the men in particular but to an extent the women too still sound obviously Black to me:

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    black people sound exactly like everyone else in Brazil, within their region of course, I never heard of a "black dialect" only
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    Not in Brazil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tooting Carmen View Post
    I cannot properly explain it, but like I said even many educated African-Americans still clearly sound Black even without you knowing they are. To demonstrate what I mean, here is the 90's TV programme Moesha, which is about a middle-class African-American family from Los Angeles (although many of Moesha's friends are more working-class). In the family, the men in particular but to an extent the women too still sound obviously Black to me:
    Verring off topic slightly, but yeah I notice it too, I think it's just the intonation because they seem to stress vowels differently from how we otherwise would in "standard English", blacks from New York sound different from ones from Atlanta but you can still tell they're black sometimes, maybe its because "African-American popular culture" is more singular than the many different sub-categories of "white culture" ie. Italians, Irish, Germans, WASPs, Mid-Western, Southern (sounds similar to blacks) etc... and blacks just a adopt "singulat cultural black" accent, I unno.

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    In Central American countries like Honduras and Costa Rica, they kind of do. I've seen black Hondurans and Ticos sound similar to Jamaicans or Trini's when they speak Spanish. I even had to listen twice to see if they were speaking Spanish or Creole because of the thickness of the accent.

    In other countries, not so much except for maybe Colombia.

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