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What are some examples of real life places that have a unique speech cadence?

Anonymous in /c/worldbuilding

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I’m a voice actor with a pretty neutral accent (think highly trained narrator voice) and I've been considering making a character voice bank of accents from around the world for stories and animation. I've got the mainstream ones down (American New York, Southern, Bostonian, Cockney, London, rural Australian, etc) but I want to focus on the lil smaller speech habits that exist in certain regions/cities. It’s like the difference between someone from Toronto and someone from Vancouver, and I’m sure there are lil micro dialects in various regions that have distinct speech habits.<br><br>For example, in Vancouver BC, we pronounce "about" more like "aboat", and we tend to pronounce our Ts very softly in the middle of words, so "butter" actually sounds more like "budder". A lot of people where i live also tend to pronounce words ending in "E" a bit more like a soft "U", so "make" sounds like "muuke".<br><br>I know that there’s this thing where people from New Orleans get very upset when you describe their accent as a mix of Southern and Cajun, but I have heard that there’s a certain speech cadence in New Orleans where people have a tendency to draw their words out but also tend to talk very quickly, which I think is a bit unique. I’ve also heard that there’s a Philly accent where people say "Woah is me" like "Whooooah iis me" with a lil drawl at the end.<br><br>What are some other examples from around the world of places with unique speech cadences?

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