PHONOLOGICAL AND ORTHOGRAPHIC PECULIARITIES OF BRITISH NAMES IN THE CAMEROONIAN VARIANT OF ENGLISH
Martynova El'vira Olegovna
Moscow Scientific Research Television Institute
Abstract. The article examines the studies of British names in Cameroon in relation to the practice of cross-cultural interaction. Orthography of British names and their pronunciation differ from the original (BrE) which is a reason for transforming British names and forming their new equivalents in the Cameroonian English. Such use of British names is a unique all around the world, and it is one of the distinctive features of the Cameroonian.
Key words and phrases: варианты английского языка, камерунский вариант английского языка, фонетика, орфография, замена гласных и согласных, дистинктивные признаки, variants of English, Cameroonian variant of English, phonetics, orthography, replacement of vowels and consonants, distinctive features
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