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The people and culture of New Orleans have made New Orleans, Louisiana, unique among and distinct from other cities in the United States, including other Southern U.S. cities. New Orleans in modern times has been described as being not a Southern city but a Caribbean city.〔New Orleans, "now under the flag of the United States, is still very much a Caribbean city...." 〕〔New Orleans is described as "a Caribbean city, an exuberant, semi-tropical city, perhaps the most hedonistic city in the United States." 〕〔New Orleans "is often called the northernmost Big Easy City ." Over the years, New Orleans has had a dominant influence on American and global culture 〕 In a locale once used by Choctaw, Houmas, and other other Indians,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=French Creoles ) 〕 prominent cultural influences date to the French and Spanish colonial periods and the introduction of African slaves in the 18th century. ==Language== (詳細はAmerican English, with significant variations, is the dominant language in New Orleans. Despite the city's French colonial history, French is rarely used in daily life. However, its expressions and pronunciation have influenced various dialects in New Orleans, and it was still in significant use at the start of the 20th century. There are nine French immersion schools in the Greater New Orleans area and French is still spoken among elites in the city. The city has a long tradition of Hispanic immigrants dating back to the 18th century. Louisiana French and Vietnamese are also heard in the city; Louisiana French speakers from southeast Louisiana entered the city during the 1970s–1980s oil boom, and a sizable Vietnamese community established itself in the city in the last third of the 20th century. The distinctive local accent is unlike either Creole or the stereotypical Southern accent so often misportrayed by film and television actors. It does, like earlier Southern Englishes, features frequent deletion of post-vocalic "r". There are many theories of the origin of the accent, but it likely results from New Orleans' geographic isolation by water, and the fact that New Orleans was a major port of entry into the United States throughout the 19th century (). Many of the immigrant groups who reside in Brooklyn also reside in New Orleans, with the largest groups being Irish, Germans, and Italians (with Sicilians predominating in the last group). The prestige associated with being from New Orleans by many residents is likely a factor in the linguistic assimilation of the ethnically divergent population. This distinctive accent is dying out generation by generation in the city (but remains very strong in the surrounding parishes). As with many sociolinguistic artifacts, it is usually attested much more strongly by older members of the population. One subtype of the New Orleans accent is sometimes identified as Yat (from "Where y'at). This word is not used as a generalized term for the New Orleans accent, and is generally reserved for the strongest varieties. New Orleans is usually pronounced by locals as "noo-AW-lyenz", "noo-AW-linz", "noo-OR-linz", or "noo-OR-lyenz". The tendency among people around the world to say "noo-or-LEENZ" stems from the use of that pronunciation by singers and songwriters, who find it easy to rhyme. The pronunciation "NAW-linz" is likewise not generally used nor liked by locals but has been popularized by the tourist trade.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Fodor's: New Orleans ) 〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Godspy ) 〕 :''Local pronunciations:'' , , , , :French: ''la Nouvelle-Orléans'' Also notable are lexical items specific to the city, such as ''lagniappe'' meaning "a little something extra," ''makin' groceries'' for grocery shopping, or ''neutral ground'' for a street median. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Culture of New Orleans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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