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    Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
    Kerry accent to me sounds like a Jamaican or Barbadian speaking English (rather than Patois/Creole), but without the African input if that makes sense.

    To me people from Waterford, Wexford, and Kilkenny sound the most "West Country" England.
    Irish people make up 25% of the Jamaican population and they influenced the Jamaican accent (without the African input.) It's the lack of the 'Th' sound combined with the strong rhotic R sound which are so similar between Jamaicans and Irish people. The Irish influenced some aspects of the Jamaican culture too, such as the Jamaican peoples love of Guinness and Baileys.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
    Kerry accent to me sounds like a Jamaican or Barbadian speaking English (rather than Patois/Creole), but without the African input if that makes sense.

    To me people from Waterford, Wexford, and Kilkenny sound the most "West Country" England.
    Being Irish I don't really see the connection with Kerry accents and Jamaican or Barbadian. They don't sound similar to me. Kerry accent reminds me a bit of a Welsh accent in how it is sing songy.

    This is a funny clip of a Kerry family that had a bat in their kitchen. They are interviewed as well.


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    Quote Originally Posted by ♥ Lily ♥ View Post
    Irish people make up 25% of the Jamaican population and they influenced the Jamaican accent (without the African input.) It's the lack of the 'Th' sound combined with the strong rhotic R sound which are so similar between Jamaicans and Irish people. The Irish influenced some aspects of the Jamaican culture too, such as the Jamaican peoples love of Guinness and Baileys.
    Vowels are also similar. But it would seem to me that Jamaicans accumulated more of their European ancestry from the Irish and Scots, than from the English and their accents definitely confirm this.

    Quote Originally Posted by Grace O'Malley View Post
    Being Irish I don't really see the connection with Kerry accents and Jamaican or Barbadian. They don't sound similar to me. Kerry accent reminds me a bit of a Welsh accent in how it is sing songy.

    This is a funny clip of a Kerry family that had a bat in their kitchen. They are interviewed as well.

    Listen to this woman when she is speaking purely English with no Patois influence. It really does sound Irish at 1:02. Even her mixed English/Patois accent you still hear it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgRAc7_Msp4

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    I once knew an elderly Irish woman in London who would never stop talking (she was funny,) and one time I was sitting at a dinner table talking and listening to her with some other young females from Trinidad ... and they started laughing and they asked her why she was 'impersonating a Jamaican accent?' after she said 'teR-tee tRee' instead of thirty-three.... just like how Jamaicans say it too. She quietly blushed and said to them that's just the way she talks.

    The ignorant females from Trinidad didn't realise that the Jamaican accent is influenced from the Irish accent;- not the other way around.

    Then she said to us that her husband is Jamaican.

    But even so... her husband didn't influence her rhotic accent and 'TH' sound, because that's just how Irish people talk.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sikeliot View Post
    Vowels are also similar. But it would seem to me that Jamaicans accumulated more of their European ancestry from the Irish and Scots, than from the English and their accents definitely confirm this.



    Listen to this woman when she is speaking purely English with no Patois influence. It really does sound Irish at 1:02. Even her mixed English/Patois accent you still hear it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgRAc7_Msp4
    Yes I could hear some influence in her pronunciations.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grace O'Malley View Post
    Yes I could hear some influence in her pronunciations.
    I think what is throwing you off is, you are used to hearing Jamaicans speak Patois (which is a Creole language) and not pure English. In the latter case, you do hear Irish influences (from the south of Ireland).

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    My husband and I, long time Caribbean residents just returned from 18 days in Ireland. At first we were only amused by what we thought was a coincidental similarity between the Caribbean dialect and the Irish accent. We noticed obvious similarities like one, two, TRE. BATroom instead of Bathroom and a hundred other nuances.
    https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowTo...n-Ireland.html

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Jamaica...ish-last-names

    I hear some similarities, but also distinct differences too. I can easily tell a Jamaican accent apart from an Irish one. Jamaicans have both African and Irish accent inputs which differentiates them from 100% Irish accents.

    https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-Ja...cent-originate
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    Quote Originally Posted by ♥ Lily ♥ View Post
    https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowTo...n-Ireland.html

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-Jamaica...ish-last-names

    I hear some similarities, but also differences too. I can easily tell a Jamaican accent apart from an Irish one. Jamaicans have both African and Irish accent inputs which differentiates them from Irish accents.

    https://www.quora.com/How-did-the-Ja...cent-originate
    I wish people would desist from saying Cromwell sent Irish as "slaves" to the Caribbean like the woman quoted. This is historically inaccurate as they were not. The Irish Slave thing is a well known myth. They were indentured servants and many Irish were slave owners as well (which is unfortunate but true unlike Irish being slaves).

    https://www.historyireland.com/volum...nts-or-slaves/

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    The old man's accent from 2:55 here is basically like what my family's accents were, and my old man still faintly has this accent, even though he left Ireland 56 years ago.

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