Consonant clusters

1. For many speakers, words which include consonant clusters in Standard English are often articulated in Pure Fiji English with epenthetic vowels, after the Fijian pattern of nativising English loanwords, e.g. sitoa < ‘store’, kirimu < ‘cream’ (both of which have become fully nativised into Fijian, but also occur in Pure Fiji English), as well as Burns Philp > [filɐp] , film > [filɐm].

2. On the other hand, many words may end with a single consonant, e.g. toast > [tos], around > [ɐraʊn] , friend > [fren], don’t > [don], Marist High > [marishai], district > [distrik]. However, as in other varieties of English, final /-ks/ does occur, particularly in the metathesis of the consonant cluster /-sk-/ as in ask > [aks].

Figure 3 shows the consonant phonemes of Pure Fijian Fiji English with their most common phonetic realizations.