Vincentian Creole - Pronunciation

Pronunciation

The creole is English-based. However, most, if not all, words are pronounced with a "Vincy" flavour. The native speakers of creole can speak it as fast or slow as they want. Most prefer to speak relatively quickly.

• Hard sounds at the end of work are avoided. There are mainly two ways hard sounds are evaded:
  • by changing the order of the letter sounds. Example: "ask" is rendered as "aks"
  • by dropping the last letter. Example: "desk" pronounced as "dess" and "tourist" as "touriss"

• For words ending in "-er", the "-er" sound changes to an "ah" sound. Example: "never" is pronounced as "nevah" and clever as "clevah"