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=== Corsican English === | === Corsican English === | ||
Rhotic, somewhat like our Hiberno-English | Rhotic, somewhat like our Hiberno-English | ||
===Pacific=== | |||
A kind of "Transatlantic accent", inspired by Californian + Modern RP/Estuary. | |||
Intonation is mostly American + my own weird intonation | |||
=====Vocab===== | |||
Mostly like our American English, with a limited number of Britishisms: ''knackered, mental, bollocks, bugger, fancy, ...'' the ones I sorta-know how to use | |||
=====Vowels===== | |||
*orange = [oːɹəndʒ] | |||
*Mary-merry-marry merger | |||
*Mirror-nearer merger | |||
*Hurry-furry merger | |||
*No mergers before /l/ | |||
*No trap-bath split | |||
*No yod-coalescence | |||
=====Consonants===== | |||
*L is light [l] before vowels and dark [ɫ] otherwise, as in RP. | |||
**wholly-holy split. | |||
*No glottal reinforcement before stops. | |||
*/p t k/ are unaspirated after stressed syllables as in AmE. | |||
*/d t/ has a tapped [ɾ] allophone in similar environments as in American English. | |||
*wine-whine merger present. | |||
[[Category:Azalic languages]] | [[Category:Azalic languages]] | ||