What does New Orleans sound like?<\/p>\n
For decades, one answer has been the \u201cYat,\u201d an accent born in the city\u2019s working class neighborhoods and shaped by the people who call them home.<\/p>\n
But now linguists say the \u201cYat\u201d dialect is fading.<\/p>\n
Jenna Ross and I spent time this year exploring the areas where the \u201cYat\u201d accent thrives and meeting the people preserving the dialect. Watch my documentary below, or click here<\/a>. To read the full story by Jenna Ross, click here<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What does New Orleans sound like? For decades, one answer has been the \u201cYat,\u201d an accent born in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":831970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,8803,206],"class_list":["post-831969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-hardwall","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}