The Language & Life Project | The Carolina Brogue: Language of the Outer Banks @TheLanguageLifeProject | Uploaded October 2013 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Excerpt from "The Carolina Brogue," a documentary about the language and life of the North Carolina Outer Banks

Available on DVD: languageandlife.org/documentaries/the-carolina-brogue

------------------------------------------------
ABOUT THE CAROLINA BROGUE
The North Carolina Outer Banks is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world. Eery year millions of visitors descend on coastal towns from Manteo and Kitty Hawk to Ocracoke and Harkers Island, while some villages along the sound remain relatively isolated. Most of the early residents of the Outer Banks came south by boat from Tidewater Virginia and the eastern shores of Maryland, and many of them had originally come from Southwest England and the Ulster province of Ireland. Features of British and Scots-Irish English have been retained in the local speech of North Carolina's Outer Banks. This dialect is now recognized as a vital part of coastal heritage and culture, one of our nation's great cultural assets.

Rooted in twenty years of fieldwork, research and community ties, "The Carolina Brogue" is a candid portrait of contemporary life on the Carolina Coast, and a look at one of the most unique dialects in the world.

Film by NEAL HUTCHESON
suckerpunchpictures.com
Executive Producer WALT WOLFRAM

A production of THE LANGUAGE AND LIFE PROJECT
at North Carolina State University

-----------------------------------------------------------
Want to learn more about the Language and Life Project?

Website:
https://www.ncsu.edu/linguistics/ncllp/index.php
Twitter:
twitter.com/NCState_LLP
Facebook:
facebook.com/NCLLP
Podcast:
mixcloud.com/Linglab
DVDs:
commerce.cashnet.com/NCSUNCLLP