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Initial sibilant clusters  
  
435   09:48 صباحاً   date: 2024-04-17
Author : Norval Smith and Vinije Haabo
Book or Source : A Handbook Of Varieties Of English Phonology
Page and Part : 558-31

Initial sibilant clusters

The treatment of initial sibilant clusters by which the sibilant is lost is another probable substrate effect, and one that appears in other creoles too. It is also one that does not operate in new or nineteenth-century loans. As such it may provide clues as to the relative age of an element. In general, nearly all English words of this kind appearing in the Suriname creoles lose the initial sibilant.

 

Saramaccan has very few such sibilants preserved, while Ndyuka has more, and Sranan has most of all. Words only occurring in Sranan are under suspicion of being late loans.