So, in Malawi, there’s this interesting thing that happens with Rs and Ls where they tend to get swapped. So when I was walking in the market with my dear friend Calorine, we came across this awesome chip shop.
So, in Malawi, there’s this interesting thing that happens with Rs and Ls where they tend to get swapped. So when I was walking in the market with my dear friend Calorine, we came across this awesome chip shop.
Chichewa speakers were the people having trouble distinguishing the two when I was there, at least when it comes to words from other languages. I know that they can pronounce both R and L, they just often swapped the sounds
Interesting, I wonder if they’re interchangeable then. In Tagalog (and probably other Filipino languages), d morphs to r when conjugated, and people are inconsistent in practice about that. I wonder if Chichewa has something similar, but with r and l.