Sierra Leonean English

Sierra Leonean English
Region	Sierra Leone
Language family	Indo-European Germanic West Germanic Ingvaeonic Anglo-Frisian Anglic English British English & African English Sierra Leonean English
Early forms	Proto-Indo-European Proto-Germanic Old English Middle English Early Modern English 19th century British English
Writing system	Latin (English alphabet) Unified English Braille
Official status
Official language in	Sierra Leone
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	sout3331
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Sierra Leonean English is the dialect of English spoken by Sierra Leoneans which has been heavily influenced by the Sierra Leone Creole people. ^[1]

Pronunciation

Sierra Leonean English realises /r/ as a voiced uvular fricative [ʁ], or, more rarely, a uvular trill [ʀ]. ^[2] This is rare among accents of English. ^[3]

See also

• Krio language, an English-based creole language originally spoken by the Sierra Leone Creole people in Sierra Leone and today the country's main lingua franca.

References

1. Saidu Bangura, 2015 A Roadmap to Sierra Leone English: A Sociohistorical and Ecological Perspective, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, PhD thesis, p. 124, 222, 232-242.
2. Ladefoged & Maddieson (1996), p. 236.
3. Collins & Mees (2013), p. 199.

Bibliography

• Collins, Beverley; Mees, Inger M. (2013) [First published 2003], Practical Phonetics and Phonology: A Resource Book for Students (3rd ed.), Routledge, ISBN   978-0-415-50650-2
• Ladefoged, Peter; Maddieson, Ian (1996). The Sounds of the World's Languages. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN   0-631-19815-6.