Latinos Gave Miami Its Own Variety Of English

How Latinos Gave Miami Its Own Variety Of English
aerial view of the skyline in Miami, Florida
aerial view of the skyline in Miami, Florida

Sometimes you can tell where someone is from by the way they talk. New Yorkers, Bostonians, Chicagoans — their accents are distinct, recognizable.

The Miami accent is harder to pinpoint. But there is one and Miamians need only cross the county line to be singled out for the way they draw out their vowels or linger on certain syllables. More noticeably, most Miamians speak with a certain Hispanic twang, the influence of decades of Latin American immigration that has made a mark on the language of Miami natives, even those who don’t speak Spanish themselves.

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