Cultivated Indian English

This is the most respectful variety of English Language spoken in India.

Introduction

The accent is more or less similar to Received Pronunciation with a Indian Influences.It is closely approximating Received Pronunciation and associated with younger generation of urban and sub-urban regions of metropolitan cities of the country.

Phonology

Vowels

Cultivated Indian English vowels

Pure vowels (Monophthongs)
English diaphoneme	Cultivated Indian Englishphoneme	Example words
/æ/	[æ~a]	act, pal, trap
/ɑː/	[ɑː]	blah,father,palm,pass, bath
/ɒ/	[ɔ]	lot, top, wasp,bother,
/ɔː/	[ɔː~oː]	all, dog, bought, loss, saw, taught
/ɛ/	[ɛ]	dress, met, bread
/ə/	[ə]	about, syrup, arena
/ɪ/	[ɪ]	hit, skim, tip
/iː/	[iː]	beam, chic, fleet
/ɨ/	[ɪ]	island, gamut, wasted
/ʌ/	[ɐ~ä]	bus, flood, what
/ʊ/	[ʊ~ɵ]	book, put, should
/uː/	[uː]	food, glue, new
Diphthongs
/aɪ/	[äɪ~ɑɪ]	ride, shine, try
/aʊ/	[æʊ~ɑʊ]	now, ouch, scout
/eɪ/	[eɪ~ɛɪ]	lake, paid, rein
/ɔɪ/	[ɔɪ~oɪ]	boy, choice, moist
/oʊ/	[oʊ~əʊ]	goat, oh, show
/oʊ/	[oʊ~ɔʊ]	goal,cold
R-colored vowels
/ɑr/	[ä(ɹ)~(ɑɹ]	barn, car, park
/ɛər/	[ɛə(ɹ)]	bare, bear, there
/ɜr/	[ə~ɐ]	burn, first, herd, learn,
/ər/	[ə(ɹ)]	doctor,murder
/ɪər/	[ɪə(ɹ)]	fear, peer, tier
/ɔr/	[ɔː(ɹ)~oː(ɹ)]	horse, war
/ɔər/	[ɔː(ɹ)~oː(ɹ)]	hoarse,score
/ʊər/	[ʊə(ɹ)~ɔː(ɹ)~oː(ɹ)]	poor,tour
/jʊər/	[jʊə(ɹ)~jɔː(ɹ)~joː(ɹ)]	cure, Europe, pure

Consonants

ʍ spelled "wh" and w spelled "w" are merged to later form. Linking R is used but intrusive R is not permitted.The consonant clusters /tj/, /dj/, /nj/, /sj/ and /lj/ (as in tune, due, new, pursue, evolution) all may present, as found in Received Pronunciation but more often they are pronounced as /tʃ/, /dʒ/ and /ʃ/ in tune, due, pursue

Voiceless plosives (/p/, /t/, /k/, /tʃ/) are aspirated at the beginning of a syllable, unless a completely unstressed vowel follows. (For example, the /p/ is aspirated in "impasse", with secondary stress on "-passe", but not "compass", where "-pass" has no stress.) Aspiration does not occur when /s/ precedes in the same syllable, as in "spot" or "stop".

Syllable final /p/, /t/, /tʃ/, and /k/ may be either preceded by a glottal stop (glottal reinforcement) or, in the case of /t/, fully replaced by a glottal stop, especially before a syllabic nasal (bitten [ˈbɪʔn̩]).[47][48] The glottal stop may be realised as creaky voice; thus, an alternative phonetic transcription of attempt [əˈtʰemʔt] could be [əˈtʰemm̰t].

See also

• Standard Indian English
• Regional Indian English