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Cajun English

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Cajun English is a dialect spoken predominantly by Cajuns in southern Louisiana. It can be described as being akin to AAVE with some French zest.

Features of this dialect include nonrhoticity r-dropping, glide deletion of the long "i", possible h-dropping, similar grammar to AAVE, etc.