Why is the New Zealand accent similar to South African?
AusE and NZE were mostly influenced by southern British dialects, and Scots/Scottish English in some areas (esp. southern NZ), while SAE has been heavily influenced by Afrikaans and local African languages.
How would you describe South African accent?
However, the South African accent has some phonetic features that distinguish it from British English. Most notably, the letter A often sounds like an “eh” sound. Thus, for many South African English speakers, the name of their country, South Africa, would be more like “South Efrica!”
What accent do New Zealand have?
New Zealand English (NZE) is the dialect of the English language spoken and written by most English-speaking New Zealanders. Its language code in ISO and Internet standards is en-NZ.
Why is the New Zealand accent so weird?
Explanations. In the past people complained that the New Zealand accent was due to laziness or bad influences. Today it is thought to be based on the accent of south-east England, where most migrants came from. The accent spread quickly among children in schools.
Why do South Africans have Australian accent?
It’s because the English once colonized parts of Africa, hence there’s a similar accent but it’s different from the influence of people from other parts of Africa and the world.
How similar are the Australian and South African accents?
Perhaps you should have turned to volume 3 of the same work by Wells: The Australian and New Zealand accents of English are very similar to one another. South African, although differing in a number of important respects, also has a general similarity to Australian.
How are the vowels of New Zealand English similar to other accents?
Note that the distribution is triangular rather than the quadrilateral found in other accents of English. The vowels of New Zealand English are similar to that of other non-rhotic dialects such as Australian English and RP, but with some distinctive variations, which are indicated by the transcriptions for New Zealand vowels in the tables below:
Do you speak English in South Africa with an Afrikaans accent?
I’m an English speaking South African, and I completely agree with you Stuart – for some reason English spoken in an Afrikaans accent is, well, grating. On the other hand, Afrikaners laugh at us when we speak Afrikaans with our ‘English’ accents. There is a HUGE amount of different SA english-speaking accents.
What is the difference between Aussie and Kiwi accents?
As a South African, to me the aussie and kiwi accents basically sound the same, but the kiwi accent sounds a bit more british than the aussie accent, which actually sounds alot like the south african Durban region accent.