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Does the 'hillbilly' accent have its origins in Cornwall or Wales?
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The hillbilly accent has very little to do with English ancestry, but rather from Irish ancestry. Most of the cultural pronunciations in hillbilly dialects center around over-pronouncing the "r", as well as common contractions found in Irish English.
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Concerning the 'hillbilly accent', the first paragraph may well be true. However Welsh Cornish and Breton are rhotic languages - as, indeed are the three Gaelic languages, Irish, Manx and Scottish. The English spoken in Cornwall, Ireland, Man and Scotland is also rhotic, that in Wales less so.
So - if rhoticity is the criterion, the hillbilly accent could have had some input from any or all of the Celtic countries. Breton speakers could also have had an input into Cajun. Certainly the Southern States had many settlers from all the Celtic countries, as indeed did the Northern States and Canada. There were many Cornish Forty Niners in the Yukon Gold Rush, for example.
It may be that historical linguistic research on the hillbilly dialects and other Southern dialects exists.
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