The Somali English voice/undertone

[balanbalis]

Can anyone else just tell if a person is Somali just by their voice? It's not even an accent, it's like a slight undertone that just lets me know.

Like when I saw this video, I KNEW the girl was Somali before I saw her face

I have the voice thingy too because I asked my friends and they said they can tell I don't have a pure English accent and that there's something different about my voice in the slightest of undertones

 

[wonyluvr]

I know that girl off twitter her name is ubax

 

[wonyluvr]

And you’re right UK Somalis all have a distinct voice kinda high pitch

 

[balanbalis]

And you’re right UK Somalis all have a distinct voice kinda high pitch

I hate it on myself but it sounds cute on the girl in the video

 

[𐒖𐒐𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘_200]

Can anyone else just tell if a person is Somali just by their voice? It's not even an accent, it's like a slight undertone that just lets me know.

Like when I saw this video, I KNEW the girl was Somali before I saw her face

I have the voice thingy too because I asked my friends and they said they can tell I don't have a pure English accent and that there's something different about my voice in the slightest of undertones

She is not even Somali but Kenyan Luo and half English

 

[wonyluvr]

She is not even Somali but Kenyan Luo and half English

Not pink pantheress the girl Talking to her

 

[Yessirski]

I don’t know if it was the voice, the accent or the auto tune but when my friend introduced me to geeyou i could tell he was Somali without knowing how he looked

 

[nothingfrosty]

Even ai can detect the Somali in your voice they said I had like 5-7% out of like 95% being British accent. It’s really cool.

 

[balanbalis]

I don’t know if it was the voice, the accent or the auto tune but when my friend introduced me to geeyou i could tell he was Somali without knowing how he looked

I listened to one second of his music and he sounds like every Somali 15-19 year old boy

 

[balanbalis]

Even ai can detect the Somali in your voice they said I had like 5-7% out of like 95% being British accent. It’s really cool.View attachment 361426

I did this and got Spanish 5%

 

[nothingfrosty]

But it’s weird with American somalis I can’t tell cuz some of them sound white not all but some

 

[nothingfrosty]

I did this and got Spanish 5%

I think it’s detecting something foreign you’d have to try again but I would nt recommend bec now they got our voices

 

[cunug3aad]

I think its like a slight lisp kind of thing but for my voice it is not very noticeable i just sound like trapper schoolkid, also it seems like it's more noticeable for american somalis than for british for some reason
Weird because when i speak somali i can still use somali accent but it dissapears when i speak english. Or maybe im just tone deaf

 

[cunug3aad]

Also jubaland boy never got sent back to somalia so maybe thats why

 

[Riftvalley]

Yes, that raspy, fast paced English cadence .

UK Asians also have an accent, British Caribbeans and Nigerian British, too. I can even tell young polish apart from white English when they start talking in English.


The way this girl speaks is what some Somalis in London sound like to me nowadays, esp females:

The man himself JORGINHO!!!! #football #soccer #futeball #viral

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I think it is some kind of slight British west African influence.

 

[Espaa_]

Even ai can detect the Somali in your voice they said I had like 5-7% out of like 95% being British accent. It’s really cool.View attachment 361426

Wtf???

 

[nothingfrosty]

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Wtf???

LMFAOO howww

 

[Espaa_]

LMFAOO howww

I have a disgusting south london accent ;( i dont sound somali i sound more west african/caribbean

 

[balanbalis]

Yes, that raspy, fast paced English cadence .

UK Asians also have an accent, British Caribbeans and Nigerian British, too. I can even tell young polish apart from white English when they start talking in English.


The way this girl speaks is what some Somalis in London sound like to me nowadays, esp females:

The man himself JORGINHO!!!! #football #soccer #futeball #viral

youtube.com

I think it is some kind of slight British west African influence.

If you ignore the caribbean/west african influence, she has the Somali voice too. Such an interesting phenomenon

 

[nothingfrosty]

I have a disgusting south london accent ;( i dont sound somali i sound jamaican

Wait that makes a lot of sense I was guessing you were from south but I didn’t want to bait you, I’m from west and my accent is slightly different maybe