Region or city of your country with the most correct accent

[Lucia]

But there isn't one that is dominant and considered more correct among the intelectuals, literary figures etc ?

Today that's just standard language, so I guess then it's Dubrovnik. A lot of our standard language was based on literature from Dubrovnik's authors.

[Tobi]

While I was in Santa Catarina I noticed that some people also use the second person correctly and their accent is somewhat neutral (more similar to european portuguese) compared to other regions.

Is the accent of these journalists a close example of what you are refering to?

I was thinking in the one more "regional" from RS, this one is very similar to the stardard. Yes, in Santa Catarian there is it also (probably in the parts with strong azorean influence, idk), the brazilian teachers are calling it of "regionalismo linguístico" instead of teach the correct fot the whole population they prefer segregate the people with a correct portuguese in a different group.

[Impaler]

Muntenia all the way!

[The Destroyer]

The most correct accent of not only Bosnian language, but also Serbian and Croatian language is the Podrinje-West Sandzak-East Herzegovina triangle. Vuk Karadžić, the father of modern Serbian langauge, honestly admits that he has chosen this dialect as the basis of "modern Serbian", and when Croats admitted the Serbian language standardization in Yugoslavia, they also accepted this dialect (most Croats speak it today).

Of course, Bosniaks are proud that Vuk Karadžić took the dialect of a majority-Bosniak region as the basis for his langauge, and it is also considered the basis dialect for Bosnian langauge.

[alnortedelsur]

Thanks friend. By Castillian Leonese I presume Castillian from Salamanca wich like Coimbra in Portugal was historically the universitary center of Spain.

Can you post a couple of videos (of Venezuela and Castilla) as examples ?

Yeah, I have heard that the Castilian-Spanish from Salamanca is the best rated one, though I can hardly distinguish their accent from the accents spoken by the rest of Castilian-Leonese people.

But since you mention it. Here some Salmantinos:

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A couple of Castilian-Leonese female students (though they're not from Salamanca):

And from Venezuela...

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A couple of middle class Venezuelan female youtubers:





And some people from the Andean Venezuelan state of Tachira (bordering Colombia), explaining the way of talking of their state (Tachirense is a sub-variety of the Venezuelan Andean accents):



More Tachirenses:

[Sebastianus Rex]

Muntenia all the way!

I understand that Muntenia corresponds to Wallachia (wich was answered by other Romanian members), it seems there's a consensus about the most correct Romanian accent.

The most correct accent of not only Bosnian language, but also Serbian and Croatian language is the Podrinje-West Sandzak-East Herzegovina triangle. Vuk Karadžić, the father of modern Serbian langauge, honestly admits that he has chosen this dialect as the basis of "modern Serbian", and when Croats admitted the Serbian language standardization in Yugoslavia, they also accepted this dialect (most Croats speak it today).

Of course, Bosniaks are proud that Vuk Karadžić took the dialect of a majority-Bosniak region as the basis for his langauge, and it is also considered the basis dialect for Bosnian langauge.

Thanks for the elaborate answer, it's very interesting and most surprising that the same region/triangle has set a pattern of correctness for three languages.

[Tooting Carmen]

UK: Southeast England - principally Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey and possibly Hampshire and Sussex.

Colombia: middle and upper-classes of Bogota.

[Sebastianus Rex]

UK: Southeast England - principally Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Surrey and possibly Hampshire and Sussex.

Colombia: middle and upper-classes of Bogota.

Thanks, I figured that Oxford set the pattern of correctness, it's clearly evident that the English upper classes (obviously the most educated with access to the best colleges and universities) have a completely different accent than the working classes. I find amazing the amount and diversity of accents that exist in England not only according to geography (even different local accents within the same city) and most amazingly social circles/classes.

[Incal]

In my country, Lima of course.

[Grishnack]

u mean the only one )))

Well, yeah. I don't know why our dialect(it's not really a dialect) was chosen to be standard but that's the way it is