Wolf Link 🐺 to Mildly Interesting • 2 months agoI don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.i.imgur.commessage-square78arrow-up1611arrow-down13
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minus-squareHauslinkfedilink8•2 months agoThey do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•2 months agoAll our vowels are just “u” (or schwa as I was once told). Nuw Zulund Fush und chups Uh nu, u’m buchd, u’m buchd us. Source: https://youtu.be/3cPs2SzShNc?si=H3OnlZLbnRJCZqzS
They do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.
And their short i’s to a short e
All our vowels are just “u” (or schwa as I was once told).
Source: https://youtu.be/3cPs2SzShNc?si=H3OnlZLbnRJCZqzS