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successfully portray the linguistic tendencies of a group by employing
a particular set of usages that approximate the actual speech of that group.

2.2 Southern American English (SAE)
The first origins of Southern American English are in the initial
colonial settlement by British immigrants. But Southern American English is
not derived solely from one wave of settlement. Fischer (1989) suggested
that it consisted of many immigrants. Southern American speech can be
traced back to lower-class servants. The formative influence on Southern
American English was the language of the African slave population.
Therefore, there are some shared features between Southern American

English and African American English.

Geographically, the South falls into two regions that have influenced
the patterns of language in the land; The Upper South, and the Lower South.
The Upper South includes the Piedmont area from Virginia to Georgia,
Northwest Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. The Lower South includes the
Tidewater and Coastal plains of Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Eastern Texas, and the Lowland areas of Arkansas
and Western Tennessee (Burkett, 1978). Figure 1 shows the map of the
United States. Number 1 is the South region while the area in no. 2 is a part
of California where many migrant workers from the south-central states
settled down.