okay have you heard yourself or others say things like get down from the car or ride bike well for many in South Florida these are common Expressions but if you're not from here you may not understand well it turns out it's a new dialect that's emerging it's official then mpc6 reporter Heather Walker was tasked with learning about this research Heather what can you tell us well you guys may even speak this and not even know it and chances are if you are cuban-american have any Cuban in your fami
ly then you helped create it yes born and raised it's an only indeed dialect have you heard about the new English dialect from Miami no we went to downtown Coral Gables to see if it exists so it's not Spanglish according to Florida International University the dialect incorporates what linguists call calcs or borrowed translations from the speaker's native language in this case Spanish most of the time it's a literal translation tell me if you say any of these what about married with like I'm ma
rried with someone instead of married too okay what about thanks God instead of thank God thank God we have heard it though what about like something like when you're ordering empanadas and they're like I want a chicken empanada I want a cheese Empanada and I want to meet Empanada instead of a beef all right dfiu Professor behind this study Philip M Carter calls it Miami English and I think it's resonating because people want to feel seen they want to their language to be legitimated [Music] cer
tainly being seen now the SE article is being viewed by millions we apparently have a new dialect of English coming out of South Florida we know that folk who are in The Immigrant Community use these types of loan translations in their speech but what we found is that these Expressions get passed down to the second and third generation people who are native speakers of English and it looks like it's here to stay in Miami's its own little country so yeah it's fair that we have our own dialect now
there you have it and the professor stresses that the term new is relative he says his studies show that this dialect came out about 50 to 60 years ago FIU plans to continue this study to see if people outside of the Cuban Community also speak this dialect another only indeed phenomenon reporting live in Miami Heather Walker NBC 6 News
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