Boquense English

Boquense English is a variety of English native to Republic of La Boca and recognized as co-official language together with Spanish and Boquense Creole. It mostly tends to follow British English spelling conventions.

History

English language was introduced into the Republic of La Boca firstly in the 2010s when the first traces of independentism started to show up. When the Republic of La Boca first declared independence, the declaration was written both in English and Spanish. Quickly in late 2011, it was passed the Illiteracy Eradication Act, in which every government compromised to eradicate illiteracy through the teaching of English and Informatics among others. Many British teachers migrated to the Republic of La Boca in a crusade to widespread English at least as the second most spoken language. As in 2018 the Republic of La Boca became a member of the Commonwealth, the people took even more interest into learning English to gain more opportunities when travelling abroad.

Charasteristics

Boquense English dialect is very similar to the Received Pronunciation also known as "posh English" or "posh accent" as it is mostly associated with an upper social class status. Nowadays in the Republic of La Boca the Received Pronunciation is widely accepted and spoken publicly by many English-speakers as mother tongue or second language. It is also used in the English-language media, mostly intended to children. Boquense English is fully a non-rhotic accent like that mostly spoken in the UK, as the phoneme /ɾ/ tends to disappear at the end of a word

Phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial		Dental		Alveolar		Post- alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m				n						ŋ
Stop	p	b			t	d					k	ɡ
Affricate							tʃ	dʒ
Fricative	f	v	θ	ð	s	z	ʃ	ʒ					h
Approximant						l		r		j		w

Vowels

Monophthongs ("Short")

	Front	Central	Back
Close	ɪ	ʊ
Mid	e	ə	ɒ
Open	æ	ʌ

Monophthongs ("Long")

	Front	Central	Back
Close	iː	uː	ɔː (listen)
Mid	ɛː	ɜː
Open			ɑː

Although it exist a difference between long and short vowels, it tends to be minimal, as it happens in reach and rich, deep and dip among other million of words.

Diphtongs and triptongs

Diphthong	Example
Closing
/eɪ/ (listen)	/beɪ/	bay
/aɪ/ (listen)	/baɪ/	buy
/ɔɪ/ (listen)	/bɔɪ/	boy
/əʊ/ (listen)	/bəʊ/	beau
/aʊ/	/baʊ/	bough
Centring
/ɪə/	/bɪə/	beer
/ʊə/	/bʊə/	boor

Triphthongs

As two syllables	Triphthong	Loss of mid-element	Further simplified as	Example
[aɪ.ə]	[aɪə]	[aːə]	[aː]	tire
[ɑʊ.ə]	[ɑʊə]	[ɑːə]	[ɑː]	tower
[əʊ.ə]	[əʊə]	[əːə]	[ɜː]	lower
[eɪ.ə]	[eɪə]	[ɛːə]	[ɛː]	layer
[ɔɪ.ə]	[ɔɪə]	[ɔːə]	[ɔː]	loyal