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Consonants

 * The accent is typically non-rhotic...

Vowels
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Monophthongs

 * is split into two different allophones, similar to most other White South African English varieties. However, like Broad and Afrikaner accents, Cape Flats speakers across the social scale shift both allophones to a more open and centralised position:
 * The standard allophone is realised as a centralised, which is otherwise in White varieties. This is only realised in stressed syllables within the following environments: adjacent to velar consonants, after , word-initially and usually before.
 * In all other environments, it is pronounced as a schwa instead. This contrasts with other White varieties, where it is, similar to Cape Flats' standard . Like other White accents, the vowel becomes retracted before , which is realised  in this variety.
 * is typically long when stressed and short  when unstressed. Note before  it is mainly long  with a tendency to experience vowel breaking.
 * However, it may be lengthened word finally  though the short realisation is also possible.
 * is characteristically back and rounded, even more so for second-language speakers. Sometimes it can be centred to or opened to.
 * is long and back, an "old-fashioned" realisation compared to a more fronted found in other White South African accents. However, some first language speakers may approximate this value. It is short  in unstressed environments, indistinguishable from the  vowel.
 * is typically and occasionally, with first-language mainly realising it as.
 * is across the board, with  often found in the broadest of speakers.
 * The – merger is present, where the vowel fluctuates between with  being typical of the broadest speakers.  and  are also recorded as occasional alternatives. The short forms are typically found in unstressed environments.
 * is generally, where is more common and sometimes  in first-language speakers. Before , the vowel is typically lowered to.
 * has a high degree of variability where notes mainly an open mid-central  with some instances of, and a backed  before . However  shows a more fronted and close  with some instances of ,  and.
 * is typically raised to, but with some tendency of lowering it to . An allophonic variant of is also observed before.
 * vowel is shifted to similar Broad and Afrikaner varieties, though  can also occur, especially before.
 * The accent has the – split, where the vowel varies between . However,  notes that in words where  is found before nasals in RP, such as dance or example, may have an "American-style"  especially in the broadest varieties, distinct from  by vowel length. A similar phenomenon can be found in Australian English outside of Adelaide.
 * , similar to the vowel, is, with  citing  and a less typical  as possible alternatives.
 * has typical realisations of, , . A rhotic realisation is also recorded in  by some second-language speakers.
 * is with a word-final allophone . Backed allophones, including,  and , occur before . In the suffix -es, it is typically.

Diphthongs

 * and show varying levels of diphthongisation.  is usually  but with  and  also being recorded, where  can be  but more likely .  primarily notes monophthongal values across the social scale, with  and  respectively.
 * is typically.
 * varies between diphthongal and monophthongal  with the monophthongal form, found in all speakers, is most realised word-finally.
 * is typically for native speakers and more open  for learners. The vowel is often backed and lowered, , . In hiatus environments, an offglide  is added; an influence from Afrikaans, e.g. layer.
 * exhibits an extremely high degree of variation, with being the typical realisations for all speakers..  also records  and less commonly  as variants. The vowel offset is often weakened   before  (which is usually ) and in unstressed positions. Similar to, an offglide  is realised in hiatus positions, e.g. going.
 * has a Canadian-raising-style variation, with non-low realisations before voiced consonants and raised  elsewhere. An offglide  is found in hiatus positions, e.g. power.
 * has a Canadian-raising-style variation, with non-low realisations before voiced consonants and raised  elsewhere. An offglide  is found in hiatus positions, e.g. power.

Phonemic incidence

 * The word asthma is pronounced instead of standard.
 * The first vowel of the name Cecil is recorded with the vowel (= ) instead of the usual.
 * Likewise, skip uses reduced instead of expected the  despite being adjacent to a velar consonant.
 * In (-)one and once, can also be heard alongside  among first-language speakers. Second-language speakers always pronounce it as.
 * Similarly want and non- are pronounced with, instead of the standard.
 * The vowel can be realised as  in certain contexts, especially in the injection yes.