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Unintelligible dialects of your language? There's an entire nation of that.

But then again, Indonesian itself is a dialect.

This video shows the dialect I'm speaking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkqSoKxRoBU

The most Alien I think gotta be Kelantanese, it's the northernmost malay dialect... I think?
I think this people are speaking Kelantanese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpU5qQ_F9VU

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Nortaneous wrote:Also: there's a place in Northern Ireland called Tyrone? wat
It's that odd? It would seem like one of the more normal (as in, English-like) Irish placenames to me!

How alive is Cajun French? Are there still substantial numbers of people who speak it natively going back generations? Wiki tells me 26,000, but Wiki also tells me 130,000 for Irish which is pushing it!
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linguoboy wrote:
Ars Lande wrote:North-American varieties of French are probably the most difficult to me.
Have you ever heard any Cajun French?
Update: I've tried Rhetorica's sample and a few others. It's a lot closer to Parisian French than I'd thought, and I could get used to it, but I can't really understand it without subtitles.

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Newfies!!!

A parody, but pretty accurate.

A better version, but sadly kind of short.
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Declan wrote:
Nortaneous wrote:Also: there's a place in Northern Ireland called Tyrone? wat
It's that odd? It would seem like one of the more normal (as in, English-like) Irish placenames to me!
It is entirely seen as a black male given name in America.
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Nessari wrote:It is entirely seen as a black male given name in America.
One of the African-American students at my high school was quoted in the yearbook as saying, "Who ever heard of a white boy named 'Tyrone'?"

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Here is an example of Doric. There are plenty more examples poking fun at it. A lot of North British Englishes are pretty difficult to make out.

That Outer Banks English is really interesting, it's sounds like a mix of Irish and Australian all wobbling together. I've seen some Americans and Canadians struggle to make out a strong Kiwi accent.
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Jipi: the first two don't even sound like German but the later ones I don't have a problem with.

My mum's dialect from her village in Rheinland-Pfalz is not understood by the folk in the closest city. Oddly enough, the only people she said understood the dialect were from Bavaria. Maybe it's just because they're more used to differences in dialect themselves or willing to accept such differences.

The only thing I really find weird about Cajun French is the English words put in it. And spoken simple past.

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linguoboy wrote:
Nessari wrote:It is entirely seen as a black male given name in America.
One of the African-American students at my high school was quoted in the yearbook as saying, "Who ever heard of a white boy named 'Tyrone'?"
I have. He was a friend of a friend until they had a falling-out.
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jmcd wrote:The only thing I really find weird about Cajun French is the English words put in it.
You should hear Chiac.

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jmcd wrote:My mum's dialect from her village in Rheinland-Pfalz is not understood by the folk in the closest city. Oddly enough, the only people she said understood the dialect were from Bavaria. Maybe it's just because they're more used to differences in dialect themselves or willing to accept such differences.
You know that the Palatinate historically has links to Bavaria, right?

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I did but I didn't think of that when writing the post and I didn't think that would necessarily have much influence on the language. After all, Belgium was ruled for a few centuries more by Spain and Austria than the Netherlands but that doesn't seem to have affected their Dutch. Then again, maybe I just don't know enough about Belgian Dutch dialects. And maybe the Palatinate-Bavaria connection was so much longer.

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Well, what I thought is that due to the historical connection, people from Bavaria may have settled in the Palatinate for whatever reason, so you might get linguistic enclaves. I know nothing about the actual linguistic situation, though, it was merely a guess.

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Ah good point. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about my mum's dialect to try to analyse it from that perspective. I would have preferred to know has a mother tongue.

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linguoboy wrote:
Nessari wrote:It is entirely seen as a black male given name in America.
One of the African-American students at my high school was quoted in the yearbook as saying, "Who ever heard of a white boy named 'Tyrone'?"
I guess he hadn't heard of Tyrone Power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_Power

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