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Old 08-14-2014, 06:46 PM
 
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I've lived here for 56 yrs and never heard of " Louisiana Spanish " .
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Old 08-14-2014, 08:10 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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French-derived...I would think!
Thing is, nothing in New Orleans reminds me of France. I've never been but I've seen some pictures. Everything in New Orleans reminds me of the Caribbean more than anything.
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Also there are Spanish speaking Louisianians. Many people in Louisiana speak Louisiana Spanish.
We do what?

I don't think there's any indigenous Spanish speaking Louisianans left.
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Old 08-14-2014, 08:51 PM
 
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Thing is, nothing in New Orleans reminds me of France. I've never been but I've seen some pictures. Everything in New Orleans reminds me of the Caribbean more than anything.
Yeah, it also doesn't look like Spain, at all.

But, yeah, similarities with the Caribbean for sure. Cartagena Colombia is another that comes to mind.
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Old 08-15-2014, 01:09 AM
 
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I've lived here for 56 yrs and never heard of " Louisiana Spanish " .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMD4KbDQyG4
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Old 08-16-2014, 04:20 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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I know of them, wasn't aware they had their own dialect.
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Old 08-16-2014, 06:22 PM
 
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I know of them, wasn't aware they had their own dialect.
It's similar to the Canary Spanish spoken over in the Canary Islands. It is has similarities to Puerto Rican and Cuban Spanish.
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Old 08-17-2014, 04:29 PM
 
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I disagree with the statement that "many people in Louisiana speak Louisiana Spanish " . Unless you want to call a handful " many " .
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Old 08-17-2014, 06:19 PM
 
Location: Louisiana to Houston to Denver to NOVA
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I disagree with the statement that "many people in Louisiana speak Louisiana Spanish " . Unless you want to call a handful " many " .
Is there even a handful?
Relative to 4.5m people a handful could be a thousand people.
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Old 08-20-2014, 07:30 PM
 
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If I recall most Spanish speakers in New Orleans are recent immigrants from Mexico and/or Honduras. The historic Canary Islander Isleno population only numbered roughly 30,000 at most and for the most part assimilated into the general population.
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Old 08-23-2014, 03:06 PM
 
Location: The East
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There's a black kid I know from Milwaukee here in Houston that sounds like he's from Mars, never heard that type of accent before, it's nothing like a typical Chicago accent.
LOL!! True, Something about the Milwaukee accent is very martian like, I think there might be a space portal hovering around that part the country. 'HIII IMM LARRRSSS DO YOUU LIKKEE CUURRRRDS....
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