Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 8 months agoI don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.i.imgur.comvideomessage-square78fedilinkarrow-up1600arrow-down13
arrow-up1597arrow-down1videoI don't know what I expected a Kiwi to sound like, but that wasn't it.i.imgur.comWolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square78fedilink
minus-squareHaus@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·7 months agoThey do speak English, but in spoken Kiwi, they convert 75% of their vowels to a short i.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 months agoAnd their short i’s to a short e
minus-squaredeadbeef79000@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·7 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