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Barbadian or Bajan English ( ) is a dialect of the
English language English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples th ...
as used by
Barbadians Barbadians, more commonly known as Bajans (pronounced ), are people who are identified with the country of Barbados, by being citizens or their descendants in the Bajan diaspora. The connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultu ...
(Bajans) and by Barbadian
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s. Schneider, E.W., and Kortmann, B. " A Handbook of Varieties of English: Morphology and syntax ". Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. In

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Pronunciation

Barbadian English is fully rhoticity in English, rhotic and full of
glottal stop The glottal stop or glottal plosive is a type of consonantal sound used in many Speech communication, spoken languages, produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract or, more precisely, the glottis. The symbol in the International Phonetic ...
s. One example of Barbadian English would be the pronunciation of ''departments'', which is . It is also notable, in comparison with standard American or British English, for the first vowel in ''price'' or ''prize''. Schneider, E.W., and Kortmann, B. " A Handbook of Varieties of English: Morphology and syntax ". Mouton de Gruyter, 2004. In

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Michelle Straw, Peter L. Patrick. " Dialect acquisition of glottal variation in /t/: Barbadians in Ipswich ". Language Sciences 29 (2007) 385–407. In

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* The realization of the vowel in Barbadian English is pretty much the same as in American English, the default . * The vowel is . * The vowel is usually . * The vowel is usually or . * The vowel is the same as in the US English, . * The vowel is . * The vowel is . is best identified as an allophone of this phoneme, thus . * The diphthong varies by region and education/class: it manifests in educated speech generally as or sometimes , and in rural and uneducated speech as the vowel . * The vowel is mostly . The diaphoneme is mostly to be identified with this vowel (see trap-bath split) * The vowel is or . * The diphthong is generally or . * The and sequences are both , resulting in the near-square merger. * The sequence is . * The sequence is usually or . * The sequence and the sequence are both usually . * The vowel is . * The vowel is mostly . * The diphthong is generally . * The diphthong is either or . * The diphthong is . * The final vowel is . * The final vowel is . * The final vowel is . * The and vowels are not merged in Barbadian English. However the vowels of , , and are generally merged.


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Barbados Barbados, officially the Republic of Barbados, is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies and the easternmost island of the Caribbean region. It lies on the boundary of the South American ...
Barbados Barbados, officially the Republic of Barbados, is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies and the easternmost island of the Caribbean region. It lies on the boundary of the South American ...
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