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! Nasal | ! Nasal | ||
| m || | | m || || n || || ɲ || (ŋ) || | ||
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! Affricate | ! Affricate | ||
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! Fricative | ! Fricative | ||
| colspan=2 | | | colspan=2 | f || s || ʃ || || || h | ||
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! Approximant | ! Approximant | ||
| w || || l || r || j || || | | w || || l || r || j || || | ||
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Poccasin English has significantly less phonemic consonants than other standard varieties of English. | |||
* [[w:Th-stopping|Th-stopping]]: /θ ð/ are realized as [[w:Alveolar stop|alveolar stops]] /t d/. | |||
** This is a common feature of many other standard varieties of English, such as [[w:Nigerian English|Nigerian]], [[w:Indian English|Indian]] and [[w:Caribbean English|Caribbean English]]. | |||
* Lack of aspiration: Although not phonemic in English, plosives are usually still aspirated at the beginning of words in most varieties of English. This is however altogether absent in Poccasin English apart from in very high-class dialects. | |||
** A Poccasin English speaker who strongly aspirates their initial plosives in order to deliberately sound high class or distinguish themselves from working class speakers is called a ''puffer'', pronounced [ˈpafa~ˈpaɸa]. | |||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | {| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;" | ||
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| aː || || | | aː || || | ||
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The status of long /iː/ as a phoneme is debated; although traditionally considered distinct from short /i/ by linguists, modern scholars have found that a growing number of primarily younger, working-class speakers have begun incorporating a {{sc|kit}}-{{sc|fleece}} merger, so that {{l|en|fit}} and {{l|en|feet}} are pronounced the same. However, a lack of such a merger is still generally considered the standard | The status of long /iː/ as a phoneme is debated; although traditionally considered distinct from short /i/ by linguists, modern scholars have found that a growing number of primarily younger, working-class speakers have begun incorporating a {{sc|kit}}-{{sc|fleece}} merger, so that {{l|en|fit}} and {{l|en|feet}} are pronounced the same. However, a lack of such a merger is still generally considered the standard pronunciation. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||