r/CapeVerde • u/talflon • 4d ago

How to best say the final /t/ sound?

In São Vicente Kriol, how should I say the final /t/ sound, such as in words like bsôt, dóte, móde?

(Being an English speaker, my brain is always confused with T and R sounds, because there are so many of them and they don't always map to the same letters. There's no choosing "the obvious one" for me.)

2 Upvotes

75% Upvoted

4 comments sorted by

1

u/Same_Detective_7433 4d ago

In Sao Vicente it is typically said with a soft t at the end when it is ending a sentence, or said alone, like in the word cat. If in speech, like Bzot cre bai p mar? you basically do not hear the t, although the tongue does hit the teeth, it is no really enunciated.

I am not Cabo Verdian, but that is what I hear here!

1

u/fidjudisomada Santiago 4d ago

Try /θ/ (think)

1

u/talflon 4d ago

Do you mean the stop in certain accents? That would be similar to what Same_Detective_7433 said. A fricative would sound off to me.

1

u/fidjudisomada Santiago 4d ago

I can't tell, honestly.