language mississippi?

Question

what language do mississippi speak

Answer 1

THe simple answer is - English

In fact, since there is nothing terribly remarkable about the language picutre in the state of Mississippi, I'm wondering it you are thinking of LOUISIANA --just the other side of the Missippi River. Louisiana has a distinctive set of dialects, due to its heritage as French colony == a French dialect ("Cajun" from "Accadien"), its own French Creole (like creoles in the Carribbean), and an "English Creole", influenced by the French Creole.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Creole_French
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_French
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun_English

But it you are truly looking for info on Mississippi, here's a little bit:

1) A snapshot of the languages spoken in Mississippi.
http://www.us-english.org/foundation/research/lia/regions/mississippi.pdf

Clearly the state is overwhelmingly English-speaking (and has, in fact, declared English as its "official language") with Spanish a distant second.


2) For the particular variety of Southern dialect and accent (called "Lower South" or "Gulf Southern" by various dialect studies), see:

A Dialect Map of American English
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US1/REF/dial-map.html

spoken samples (mp3 files)
http://web.ku.edu/idea/northamerica/usa/mississippi/mississippi.htm

Answer 2

People from Mississippi speak English. If this is a riddle, I would say the Mississippi river speaks the language of the Riverboat.

Answer 3

actually the language originally spoken in mississippi was mississippi, a native tongue which may be extinct as of present.

Answer 4

english