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Ugandan English,〔http://markmeynell.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/the-joys-of-ugandan-english/〕〔http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog-entries/nic./1/1255342288/tpod.html〕 or Uglish (pronounced you-glish),〔http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/22/-sp-how-english-language-evolved-uganda-uglish〕 is the dialect of English spoken in Uganda. As with similar dialects spoken elsewhere, Ugandan English has developed a strong local flavour. ==Influence of indigenous languages== The speech patterns of Ugandan languages strongly influence spoken English. Uganda has a large variety of indigenous languages, and someone familiar with Uganda can readily identify the native language of a person speaking English. Ugandan speakers will alter foreign words to make them sound more euphonic. The Bantu languages spoken in southern Uganda tend not to have consonants sounded alone without a vowel in the syllable. Indeed, the Luganda word for consonant is "silent letter". Thus the letters ''l'' and ''d'' in ''Alfred'' will be given sound by the addition of , making the pronunciation of the word . Similarly, ''muscular'' is pronounced . Luganda never has starting a word; it only appears following the letters and within a word. The sound, conversely, cannot follow these sounds. Thus the word ''railway'' gets its and its substituted, giving . Luganda does not permit the sequence ; any occurrence of this sound becomes . Thus ''cute'' is pronounced . The initial is dysphonic to the Luganda speaker but is perfectly natural to the speaker of Runyankole and Rukiga, which have few instances of the sound. Additionally, in Runyankole and Rukiga is more often heard as . The combination of the above three rules will transform ''calcium'' into . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ugandan English」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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