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Nicaragua (Caribbean Coast / Bluefields)

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Nicaragua · Bluefields / Caribbean Coast

English-Creole and Miskito contact set Bluefields apart from Managua's Pacific norm -- voseo survives, but the rhythm leans stress-timed and coda /s/ weakens all the way to deletion, further than the Pacific side's aspiration-only norm.

Voseo, shared with the Pacific sideCoda /s/ deleted (further than Pacific-side aspiration)English-creole and Miskito contact influenceStress-timed rhythm

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FeatureValueMeaningDrill
Mixed Languagesmixed_languagesDrill
S Treatments_treatmentdeleteDrill
Intonation Contourintonation_contourcentral_american_singDrill
Syllable Timingsyllable_timingstress_timedDrill
Tuteo Voseotuteo_voseovoseoDrill