Abstract
Pomerano is the name for a group of unroofed Eastern Pomeranian varieties spoken in several parts of Brazil. The speakers of this language display an astonishing amount of phonetic variation within and in between the three analyzed speech communities. Part of this variation, namely retention of the syllable-final segments [n] and [f] and retention of the (partly epenthetic) segments [x]/[ç] instead of innovative [f], can be accounted for by the conservative and norm-abiding (linguistic) habitus of some informants. Intriguingly, these informants also (claim to) have a better command of Standard German. Unlike these types of variation, the extant alternation between the sonorants [n], [l], and [r] might constitute a true case of free variation.
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