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There is one village in Nigeria where the men and women speak different languages. Not sure if that is a satisfactory answer.
That is a profoundly satisfactory answer, opens up a whole new rabbit hole
Seems legit:
California. In the 90s, women started up-talking, that fucking annoying habit of saying everything as if it were a question.
I get calls at work from people who talk like that and it drives me fucking crazy lol
I am told that in the movie Dances with Wolves, all the language consultants were women, and as a result all the characters speak with a noticable “women’s accent” that is very noticablevto older Lakota viewers.
Thank you so much! I was worried this was a laughable idea but your comment shows it’s quite a well documnted phenomenon
Puerto Rican Spanish, the men speak a more ‘street’ less formal dialect, while women speak a more formal dialect. Heavily influenced by music.
Like these guys?
No, not the right country or the right stereotype. Like men might shorten ‘muchacho’ to ‘chacho’ while women would be saying ‘muchacha.’
Beverly Hills
Right?? So i’m not just imagining it 😅
Does this stem from the Valley Girl trend of the 80s?
Thats Where I Want To Be!
One of the many debated claims about Pirahã is that female speakers can’t use the phoneme /h/, always substituting /s/ instead.
Kashyyk probably
There are a bunch of cultures where a ‘sacred language’ is permitted only for men, or there are distinct languages used by only men and only women. Unfortunately, my memory isn’t so good as to remember what those languages are. A quick search shows that the Kallawaya language is a ‘secret language’ passed down usually from father to son, and to daughters only if a man has no sons.
Check out ‘Gender role in language’ and the topic of genderlects; Gender differences in Japanese; Nüshu script.
You could also try looking through above-mentioned sacred languages and ritual languages for whether it’s mentioned that any of them are specific to a gender.
