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Brittainese (''bretneis'' [brɛtˈneːz] or ''leng bretneis'' [ˈlɛŋg brɛtˈneːz]) is a Romance language spoken by around 400 million people as a native language, mainly in the Brittish Isles, North America, Australia, India and Africa. It is most closely related with the Channel languages and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language French], with which it forms the North-West branch of the Romance languages, and with which it shares many linguistic features.
Brittainese (''bretneis'' [brɛtˈneːz] or ''leng bretneis'' [ˈlɛŋg brɛtˈneːz]) is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages Romance language] spoken by around 400 million people as a native language, mainly in the Brittish Isles, North America, Australia, India and Africa. It is most closely related with the Channel languages and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language French], with which it forms the North-West branch of the Romance languages, and with which it shares many linguistic features.




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Notes:
* Unvoiced stops are most often not aspirated.
* [ŋ] is only an allophone of /n/ preceding /k/ or /g/.
* /θ/ is only marginally phonemic in Brittainese, only appearing in loan words, names and is a common realisation of the cluster /ðs/.
* /ɾ/ can be pronounced in a number of ways depending on the speaker and the situation. It is most commonly weakened to an aproximant or may, depending on the dialect, even be deleted before another consonant or word-finally, sometimes lengthening the previous vowel. It is however never pronounced as [ɻ], and its realisation as [ʀ] has mostly died out in the historically concerned dialects.


===Vowels===
===Vowels===
Vowels in Brittainese varies greatly between dialects. Below is listed one rendering of the Standard Brittainese dialect, although the view in the matter differs among specialists.
<div style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; margin-right: 1em;">
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Standard Brittainese
! rowspan="2" |
! colspan="2" |[[Front vowel|Front]]
! colspan="2" |[[Central vowel|Central]]
! colspan="2" |[[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! {{small|short}}
! {{small|long}}
! {{small|short}}
! {{small|long}}
! {{small|short}}
! {{small|long}}
|-
! [[Close vowel|Close]]
| [[w:Close front unrounded vowel|i]]
| [[w:Close front unrounded vowel|iː]]
|
|
| [[w:Close back rounded vowel|u]]
| [[w:Close back rounded vowel|uː]]
|-
! [[Mid vowel|Mid]]
| [[w:Open-mid front unrounded vowel|ɛ]]
| [[w:Open-mid front unrounded vowel|ɛː]]  [[w:Close-mid front unrounded vowel|eː]]
| [[w:Mid central vowel|ə]]
|
| [[w:Open-mid back rounded vowel|ɔ]]
| [[w:Open-mid back rounded vowel|ɔː]]  [[w:Close-mid back rounded vowel|oː]]
|-
! [[Open vowel|Open]]
|
|
| [[Near-open central vowel|ɐ]]  [[Open central unrounded vowel|a]]
|
| [[Open back unrounded vowel|ɑ]]
| [[Open back unrounded vowel|ɑː]]
|-
! [[Diphthong]]s
| colspan="6" | aɪ &nbsp; eɪ &nbsp; eʊ &nbsp; ʊi
|-
|}
</div>
<div style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; margin-right: 1em;">
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ Brittish Brittainese
! rowspan="2" |
! colspan="2" |[[Front vowel|Front]]
! colspan="2" |[[Central vowel|Central]]
! colspan="2" |[[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! {{small|short}}
! {{small|long}}
! {{small|short}}
! {{small|long}}
! {{small|short}}
! {{small|long}}
|-
! [[Close vowel|Close]]
| [[w:Near-close front unrounded vowel|ɪ]]
| [[w:Close front unrounded vowel|iː]]
| [[w:Close central rounded vowel|ʉ]]
|
|
| [[w:Close back rounded vowel|uː]]
|-
! [[Mid vowel|Mid]]
| [[w:Open-mid front unrounded vowel|ɛ]]
| [[w:Close-mid front unrounded vowel|eː]]
| [[w:Mid central vowel|ə]]
|
| [[w:Open-mid back rounded vowel|ɔ]]
| [[w:Close-mid back rounded vowel|oː]]
|-
! [[Open vowel|Open]]
|
| [[Near-open front unrounded vowel|æː]]
| [[Near-open central vowel|ɐ]]  [[Open central unrounded vowel|a]]
|
| [[Open back rounded vowel|ɒ]]
| [[Open back unrounded vowel|ɑː]]
|-
! [[Diphthong]]s
| colspan="6" | aɪ &nbsp; eɪ &nbsp; øy
|-
|}
</div>
<div style="display: inline-block; vertical-align: top; margin-right: 1em;">
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|+ American Brittainese
! rowspan="2" |
! colspan="2" |[[Front vowel|Front]]
! colspan="2" |[[Central vowel|Central]]
! colspan="2" |[[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
! {{small|lax}}
! {{small|tense}}
! {{small|lax}}
! {{small|tense}}
! {{small|lax}}
! {{small|tense}}
|-
! [[Close vowel|Close]]
| [[w:Near-close front unrounded vowel|ɪ]]
| [[w:Close front unrounded vowel|i]]
|
|
| [[w:Near-close near-back rounded vowel|ʊ]]
| [[w:Close back rounded vowel|u]]
|-
! [[Mid vowel|Mid]]
| [[w:Open-mid front unrounded vowel|ɛ]]
| [[w:Close-mid front unrounded vowel|e]]
| [[w:Mid central vowel|ə]]
|
| [[w:Open-mid back rounded vowel|ɔ]]
| [[w:Close-mid back rounded vowel|o]]
|-
! [[Open vowel|Open]]
|
| [[Near-open front unrounded vowel|æ]]
| [[Near-open central vowel|ɐ]]
|
| [[Open back rounded vowel|ɒ]]
| [[Open back unrounded vowel|ɑ]]
|-
! [[Diphthong]]s
| colspan="6" | aɪ &nbsp; eɪ &nbsp; eʊ &nbsp; ʊi
|-
|}
</div>
===Prosody===
===Prosody===
====Stress====
====Stress====
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