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Most African languages have a relatively small vowel system.No FLEECE / KIT distinction→ leave = liveMonophthongal FACE and GOATTRAP = BATH = PALM = START = [a]LOT = STRUT = CLOTH = THOUGHT = FORCE = NORTH = [ᴐ]GOOSE = FOOT = [u] → look = LukeThey do challenges (/ð/ => [d])Most Nigerian languages do not have dental fricatives (/θ/ or /ð/)ketchup (/ʌ/ => [ᴐ])Whereas British, American and Antipodean accents of English are stress-timed, African Englishes tend to be syllable-timed.This is a characteristic they share with the French language.
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