BelizeKriol_EngDic_49337_2009

ttaigauvwyzfutveeklwowlayaamzipNOTE: This ‘short u’ soundin English is written as u[put] or as oo [foot].NOTE: In archaic Kriolspeech, the ‘b’ sound wasoften used rather than ‘v’ asin riba [river].NOTE: Words ending in ‘y’in English are written withan ‘i’ in Kriol, as in baybi[baby]. In some Kriolwords, the initial consonantsound glides into a ‘y’sound, such as kyap [cap]. 5Nasal vowels:ahn wahnehn dehnihn hihnohn kohnNOTE: In Kriol, ‘hn’ following a vowel showsthat the vowel is nasalized (i.e. said throughthe nose). It is necessary to differentiatebecause wahn [a] is a different word fromwan [one]; dehn is different from den, etc.5 This glide occurs much more frequently in older Kriol speech, and amongother Caribbean Creoles, but seems to be dropping out of BK. For somewords which end in ‘r’ in English, in Kriol, the ‘r’ is often dropped and a‘y’ precedes the vowel (dear becomes dyaa).14