Linguistic Features of Mauritanian English •Consonant cluster simplification: •In Mauritanian English, words of consonant clsuter are tended to be simplified by vowel insertion. •Chapter: /tʃaptər/ /tʃapitər/ •Stress : /stres/ /sitres/ •Tests : /tests/ /testiz/ Another featutre of Mauritanian English is that the the Mauritanian Africans replace the english morphem ‘tion’ by the Frenche one: ‘tion’: /shən/ ‘tion’ : /siuñ/
In the Mauritanian Africans' speeche also, the allophone [θ] is often pronounsed as /s/ for example, the word ‘something’ / Sʌmθɪŋ / sounds like / Sʌmsɪŋ /