Liquids

The rhotic varieties are IndE, PakE and PhlE. There is occasional rhoticity in some varieties of WSAfE, especially with –er suffixes. There is r ~ l alternation in EAfrE, GhE and GhP, depending on speakers’ home languages. R is regularly realized as [l] amongst Chinese speakers of MalE. Linking [r] is absent in GhE, CamE and LibSE, and is rare to non-existent in varieties of South African English. L-vocalization is reported in GhE and LibSE. Dark [Ɨ] is very common in CFE; whereas light [l] prevails in IndE and amongst older speakers of InSAfE.