Arima, Trinidad & Tobago
The Arima Accent
Arima sits inside the Trinidadian dialect area, which covers Trinidad and Tobago. No other dialect area in the survey comes close to it.
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What people in Arima sound like
- Rhotic R — unlike most Jamaican English.
- Plural “you” is “all yuh”.
- The shared minibus is a maxi-taxi.
- TH-stopping is common: “three” towards “tree”.
These are the markers of the Trinidadian accent as a whole. No survey claims every speaker in Arima has all of them — the full Trinidadian profile sets out where the region varies.
Is your accent from Arima?
There is no way to answer that from a description. The test asks 29 questions about the words you use and how you say them, scores your answers against the Trinidadian English profile and every other profile in the survey, and shows you where people who answer the way you do actually live.