Vowels

Basilectal Hawai‘i Creole

The typical vowels of basilectal Hawai‘i Creole are given in Table 1, and those that differ from General American English are described below. The keywords used by Wells (1982) are employed here, except when a particular word is not found in basilectal Hawai‘i Creole. In such cases, an alternative with the same vowel quality that is found in the language is given (with Wells’ word following in brackets).