Features
- Malaysian English is generally non-rhotic, regardless of the fact that all /r/s are pronounced in Malay.
- Malaysian English originates from British English as a result of British rule in what is now Malaysia.
- It has components of American English, Malay, Chinese, Indian languages, and other languages: vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar.
- Malaysian English employs a broad A accent, as such words like cab and tab appear with /ɑː/ rather than /æ/.
- The /t/ in words like butter is usually not flapped (as in some forms of American English) or realised as a glottal stop (as in many forms of British English, including Cockney).
- There is no h-dropping in words like head.
- Malaysian English does not have English consonant-cluster reductions after /n/, /t/, and /d/. Hence, for example, new, tune and dune are pronounced /ˈnjuː/, /ˈtjuːn/, and /ˈdjuːn/. This contrasts with many East Anglian and East Midland varieties of British English and with most forms of American English.
- Fricatives 'th' (θ and ð) are pronounced for and for .
- 'L' is generally clear.
- Diphthongs 'ow' ( or ) are just and 'ay' is just .
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