The pre-Columbian inhabitants of North America and their descendants ?
Naw, those like the American Indians speak their own languages, the few that are left here.
It’s my contention that the American Language (post-Columbian) has evolved from the English Language to such a degree to be considered a Language in it’s own right. Speech patterns, meanings, syntax, and such have gone different ways in the past century and more. I no longer feel there is cultural ties to the British Isles, we have developed our own culture now.
If you read the writings in America (USA) from the 1700s and 1800s, it does closely resemble that of the English, but after that it veers away into it’s own. Language does evolve, I am sure, and I haven’t read any English novels of late, but the ones I did read when younger, principally Dickens, is so utterly strange to me anymore. (For reference, try reading the original text copy of Dicken’s “Hard Times”. The edition I have has footnotes giving definitions of many of the words and phrases I had never encountered before. It is an interesting tale, once one is able to understand just what is written !). While no doubt much of what I read has now been edited to make it more 'Americanized’, just reading the original text is an experience in itself.
What I know is, I don’t talk like an English person, and even in listening to some of their broadcasts and old shows has always been very odd. And, I was an old Dr. Who fan for awhile.
Even the culture is as foreign to me as that of the French or any other European Country.
