Sonorants

These varieties all show three distinct nasal phonemes. Basilectal Kriol shows an additional retroflexed and palatalized nasal. Note that Bislama has a palatal nasal word-finally for words of French origin such as champagne.

The rhotic /r/ is generally realized in these languages as an alveolar flap (or trill). Post-vocalic /r/ does not occur; however, Hawai‘i Creole shows R-coloring of the NURSE vowel in stressed syllables.

In Hawai‘i Creole L-vocalization is common in syllable codas and before consonants. In other contact varieties postvocalic /l/ is typically non-velarized.