Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents?

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• VinesNFluff@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re a subsect of sociolects known as genderlects.

  Not common, but they exist.

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• ytg@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes, but it’s usually very subtle (e.g. in realizations of single phonemes or in intonation). There are also more extreme cases which other commenters have pointed out.

  I recommend you look up sociolects and sociolinguistics.

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• zxqwas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There is one village in Nigeria where the men and women speak different languages. Not sure if that is a satisfactory answer.

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  • porcoesphino@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Seems legit:

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubang

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    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Some Slavic languages apparently also have distinct masculine and feminine versions of verbs, which match the speaker if in the first person. Apparently so does Icelandic (to the point where an Icelandic modernist novel was titled “When I Got Pregnant”, though in the masculine form)

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  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That is a profoundly satisfactory answer, opens up a whole new rabbit hole

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• Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I am told that in the movie Dances with Wolves, all the language consultants were women, and as a result all the characters speak with a noticable “women’s accent” that is very noticablevto older Lakota viewers.

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  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thank you so much! I was worried this was a laughable idea but your comment shows it’s quite a well documnted phenomenon

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• RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Puerto Rican Spanish, the men speak a more ‘street’ less formal dialect, while women speak a more formal dialect. Heavily influenced by music.

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  • blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Like these guys?

    Image

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    • RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No. Like men might shorten ‘muchacho’ to ‘chacho’ while women would be saying ‘muchacha.’

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• SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  California. In the 90s, women started up-talking, that fucking annoying habit of saying everything as if it were a question.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Valley Girl vs Surfer Guy

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  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I get calls at work from people who talk like that and it drives me fucking crazy lol

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• Bitflip@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Beverly Hills

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  • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Does this stem from the Valley Girl trend of the 80s?

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  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Right?? So i’m not just imagining it 😅

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  • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Thats Where I Want To Be!

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  One of the many controversial claims about Pirahã is that female speakers can’t use the phoneme /h/, always substituting /s/ instead.

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• JustTesting@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Thai has some different words and accents used by male and female speakers. best source i could find with a quick search though i’d have liked a more detailed one.

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• Kenny2999@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Kashyyk probably

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  • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Look like a black Wookiee when he let his beard grow

    Weirdo, brown skinned-ed, always kept his hair low

    Rumors has it it’s a S-Curl accident

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• SlurpingPus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There are a bunch of cultures where a ‘sacred language’ is permitted only for men, or there are distinct languages used by only men and only women. Unfortunately, my memory isn’t so good as to remember what those languages are. A quick search shows that the Kallawaya language is a ‘secret language’ passed down usually from father to son, and to daughters only is a man has no sons.

  Check out ‘Gender role in language’ and the topic of genderlects; Gender differences in Japanese; Nüshu script.

  You could also try looking through above-mentioned sacred languages and ritual languages for whether it’s mentioned that any of them are specific to a gender.

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Maybe the US to some extent because of this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register

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  • Lokoschade@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Interesting video on the topic youtu.be/Q0yL2GezneU

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    • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Fascinating stuff.

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    • FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I love the clip from “Louder Milk” that they use

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• ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  All of them?

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  • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think OP means a notable difference in accent between men and women of a given region.

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    • GreenBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean, again, most if not all of them. Almost every language there’s slight variations in pronunciation, intonation, vocabulary and pacing between men and women that would otherwise qualify as a “different accent.” It’s more pronounced in some regions and dialects, but most of them have “male” and “female” variations.

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    • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s what I meant too. Men and women almost universally have different vocal patterns though, even when they ostensibly have the same accent.

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    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The vocal creak affect is pretty much unique to English speaking females.

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