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California. In the 90s, women started up-talking, that fucking annoying habit of saying everything as if it were a question.
I get calls at work from people who talk like that and it drives me fucking crazy lol
Kashyyk probably
There is one village in Nigeria where the men and women speak different languages. Not sure if that is a satisfactory answer.
Seems legit:
That is a profoundly satisfactory answer, opens up a whole new rabbit hole
In Japanese there is speech coded predominantly male and female. This includes word choices and some grammatical ones as well.
I took Japanese in college and I didn’t realize until I started talking to actual Japanese people that the classes were teaching me the girliest princess honorifics possible lol
Any men seeking to learn Japanese from their local girlfriend, be warned: you will sound a bit gay to everyone for awhile. Fortunately, this is common enough that most Japanese won’t razz you for it
Those aren’t really accents. In many Slavic languages, the declination of verbs is gender-specific in the past tense and conditionals. The form is -l for masculine and -la for feminine. You can pronounce it -lǝ (emphasize the schwa that comes at the end of -l) to be vague about it, use the -lo neutrum (dehumanizing), or, to also sound sassy, one of the plural forms -li (default), -ly (all female or neutral, pronounced the same as -li) or -la (all neutral). Yeah, no good gender-neutral options yet.
That’s just grammatical gender, something like half of all languages has some form of it.
Maybe the US to some extent because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register
Interesting video on the topic https://youtu.be/Q0yL2GezneU
Fascinating stuff.
I love the clip from “Louder Milk” that they use. I would’ve thought it was enough to nip the epidemic in the bud, embarassing all vocal deep-friers into working on themselves.
Puerto Rican Spanish, the men speak a more ‘street’ less formal dialect, while women speak a more formal dialect. Heavily influenced by music.
Like these guys?
No, not the right country or the right stereotype. Like men might shorten ‘muchacho’ to ‘chacho’ while women would be saying ‘muchacha.’
Beverly Hills
Does this stem from the Valley Girl trend of the 80s?
Right?? So i’m not just imagining it 😅
Thats Where I Want To Be!
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 if 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.
One of the many debated claims about Pirahã is that female speakers can’t use the phoneme /h/, always substituting /s/ instead.
