What are the main influences on and characteristics of the Pied-Noir accent/dialect?

[millais]

I'm trying to figure out the mechanics of this accent, but I can't find anything written about it in English, and the French search results just turn up audio clips of people demonstrating the accent in not very helpful contexts. It sounds more guttural and has less tonal fluctuation than standard Metropolitan or Parisian French. And sometimes it sounds like they put the emphasis on the "wrong" syllables of words, compared to the "proper" Metropolitan French pronunciation.

Are all those differences derived from the Iberian/Italian admixture in the Pied-Noir stock, like from early Pied-Noirs mixing Spanish or Italian language mannerisms into their French? Or is it from generations of talking pidgin Arab French with the North African Arabs and Berbers? Are there any grammatical or syntactical quirks that differ from Metropolitan French?

 

[Pixy]

Pied-noirs are just frenchies who fled from the former colonies the moment they became independent (hence peid-noir). I was only taught Parisian, but a good first port of call would probably just be listening to people from/in the former North-African colonies speaking. That would seem to be the most 'pure' form of it, undiluted by mainland influences.

 

[Madre Muerte]

fr*nch people

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[Solid Snek]

It's a cant. The Pied-Noir encode hidden messages into their seemingly non-standard pronunciation; usually of a military, criminal, or terrorist nature. Each syllable they stress and tonal fluctuation they fail to enunciation carries with it a secret, coded meaning, known only to the Pied-Noir.

When speaking "normally", the Pied-Noir sound like any other Metropolitan Frenchmen. But they rarely ever speak normally, as they are constantly relaying information to other Pied-Noir sleeper agents embedded in French society and throughout the world.