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Hazamaeia
Diplomat
 
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Founded: Dec 21, 2010
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Postby Hazamaeia » Thu Oct 23, 2014 7:40 am

Ejectives, ejectives everywhere

and nasals
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Hi, Earth! I'm Rimarua from the Hazameian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I'll be handling this account now for Hazamaeia replacing Vice-Minister Ranuwavimranure so he can focus more on his higher duty in the ministry.

I also play badminton and will represent my nation in the next Olympic. At that time, I'll be most likely replaced by my roommate here, Arina. She works at the grocery store next to our apartment.

Why are you saying bad things about me, Rima? I am an author and I own that grocery store!
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Senyosu
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Founded: Mar 14, 2014
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Postby Senyosu » Thu Oct 23, 2014 7:53 am

Emphasis on the wrong syllable tends to happen all too often. Due to more than half of the population is bilingual in both Senyonese and English, the accent is not as strong as it's neighbors (China, Japan, Korea respectively... naval borders mind you), but it is still quite distinct.

Some noticeable traits.

Trilled 'r' (more common in Northern speakers) when the 'r' precedes a vowel (be it monophthong or diphthong).

Omitted 'r' when the 'r' is meant to be a fluid.

Omitted 'k' when it is at the end of a word.

Lack of 'l' sounds, may be omitted entirely (Southerners and South Easterners tend to this) Supplemented with a 'r' pr m

No sense of euphemism.

Vowels are pronounced as they are spelled.

Tendency to use 'ji(k)u' or 'jin' to put emphasis on certain words. Jiku is used by southerners.
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Senyosu is under reconstruction, however, former tropes still apply

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Bilanda
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Posts: 20
Founded: Oct 14, 2014
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Postby Bilanda » Thu Oct 23, 2014 11:47 pm

Bilanda is a multilingual country, so accents vary. But the dominant accents would primarily be of East Asian origin and an accent akin to British, however with a deeper, low-pitched tone.

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Rhinosaur Jones
Civilian
 
Posts: 1
Founded: Jun 19, 2014
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Postby Rhinosaur Jones » Fri Oct 24, 2014 1:51 am

The Rhinosaurs have taught us how to speak in grunts and charges. We likely hold a slightly lower treble banded grunt than other Rhinosaur-affiliated populations, and our charges consist of more arm-flailing than usual.

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Catarra
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Posts: 350
Founded: May 19, 2014
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Postby Catarra » Fri Oct 24, 2014 2:59 am

Catarran dialects are relatively uniform, and are mutually intelligible. They are divided into two blocks, Eastern and Western, differing mostly in pronunciation.
Standard Catarran, is a variety accepted by virtually all speakers is regulated by the Institute of Catarran Linguistical Studies (IELC), Which revises grammar, orthography and word accepcions.

Catarran shares many traits with the language of the conquerors and colons of Catarra. Whicj spoke Romance languages. However, being mostly from the Iberian Peninsula, Catarran, in terms of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar evolutionated closer to Gallo-Romance (French, Italian, Occitan, Catalan, etc.).These similarities are most notable with Catalan and Occitan.
It has influence of arabic and berber substrate of former native inhabitants language but in colloquial speech, as culte speech is more romanised than colloquial.

Catarran has an inflectional grammar, with two genders (masculine, feminine), and two numbers (singular, plural). Pronouns are also inflected for case, animacy and politeness, and can be combined in very complex ways. Verbs are split in several paradigms and are inflected for person, number, tense, aspect, mood, and gender. In terms of pronunciation, Catalan has many words ending in a wide variety of consonants and some consonant clusters, in contrast with many other Romance languages.

On the other hand Native. Catarran arab.

Catarran arab is a Semitic language descended from Siculo-Arabic and moriscos Language. is written in latin script. The only places in which in cult use is used classic arab and arab script is in Choranic works. In the course of its history has been influenced by Sicilian, Catalan, occitan and italian, to a lesser extent French and English. Today, the core vocabulary (including both the most commonly used vocabulary and function words) is Semitic, with large numbers of loan words, than can be accountend to almost 50% of the language, but in cult use the number of loans are higher than in colloquial use. Because of the romance influence on Siculo-Arabic, Catarran arab has many language contact features and is most commonly described as a language with a large number of romance loanwords.

Catarran arab dialects are relatively uniform, and are mutually intelligible. They are divided into two blocks coastal (northwestern and eastern) and central-southern. They differ in the romance influence level.
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El Pialo
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Posts: 21
Founded: Aug 09, 2014
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Postby El Pialo » Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:46 pm

Half Mexican half Russian

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Lolloh
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Founded: Feb 15, 2013
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Postby Lolloh » Fri Oct 24, 2014 6:59 pm

Depends.

Human: An Italo-German accent
Pegasi Pony: A bit whispy, like air, and the "h"s are drawn out in a gaspy way. Every sentence sounds as if it's a last breath.
Earth Pony: Down-to-earth Texan/Southern
Unicorn Pony: A rich, upper-class accent; always sound like they're wasting their time talking to you.
Sea Pony: Like a drunk gargling salt water.
All Ponies: Use the "MLP" dialect, which includes replacing references to sapients with the word "pony" (everypony, somepony, nopony, etc.)
Hamster: Squeaky, nervous, sounds like they'll die from stress in a few seconds.
Dragon: A loud, roaring bass that may or may not shatter your eardrums.
Wolves: A long, howling way of speaking, which sounds a lot like they're getting stabbed with pins at the end of every sentence.
Dogs: Simplistic, creole speech that uses "me" instead of "I" and "wanna" instead of "to want." Sometimes indecipherable.
Cats: Lots of "nyahs" and "meows." Also, lots of exclamations based on tuna and sardines: "Tuna-tastic! Sardine-mazing!"
Avian: Lots of screeches. Also sound like they're beings tabbed with pins, but much more often than wolves.

... and that SHOULD cover MOST of them. Probably more that I forgot, though. :(
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Ardoki
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Founded: Sep 14, 2013
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Postby Ardoki » Fri Oct 24, 2014 9:22 pm

An Irish accent.
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Folycos
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Posts: 75
Founded: Oct 24, 2014
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Postby Folycos » Fri Oct 24, 2014 11:54 pm

Dog: Dowg
Human: Hyuw-mayn
Folycos: Fow-liy-cows
Lamp: Laymp
The Constitutional Monarchy of Folycos 30 July 1943 [b]
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Kedri
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Posts: 1011
Founded: May 25, 2012
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Postby Kedri » Sat Oct 25, 2014 6:23 am

Make a wild guess ye silly landlubbers!
Kedri is a nation of 18th century pirates who know water-bending. Throw in some steampunk, as well. Tech level is PT/FanT.
Kedrians abandon piracy and become a modernized country, founded by reformed criminals who forsook piracy and the citizens are descended from pirates, and still retain some of their heritage such as speech, accent, politics.

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Kalifati Arab shqiptar
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Founded: Aug 11, 2014
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Postby Kalifati Arab shqiptar » Sat Oct 25, 2014 6:25 am

Tosk and Geg of the Albanian Language

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Benum Landum II
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Posts: 154
Founded: Aug 16, 2014
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Postby Benum Landum II » Sat Oct 25, 2014 6:36 am

A combination of Southern and gangster.
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Alexendrus
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Posts: 65
Founded: Sep 09, 2014
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Postby Alexendrus » Sat Oct 25, 2014 8:41 am

A Russian accent.
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Osstria
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Posts: 3
Founded: Oct 25, 2014
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Postby Osstria » Sat Oct 25, 2014 9:23 am

A low German. A combination of Austrian, Swiss and Bavarian.

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El Canada
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Posts: 14
Founded: Oct 26, 2014
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Postby El Canada » Sun Oct 26, 2014 7:18 pm

A Central or South American accent.
Hispanic Republic of Canada
We are the result of the Allies losing World War II. The Allied countries were divided among the Axis countries and their supporters. Germany got Britain, Italy got France, and Spain got Canada.
We all speak Spanish, but in Quebec, French has co-official status.

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Communist Volkstrad
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Founded: Oct 22, 2014
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Postby Communist Volkstrad » Sun Oct 26, 2014 7:38 pm

Volkstradis have Czech or Bulgarian Accents, depending on the region of the country.

The language of Volkstrad is mainly a mix between Czech and Bulgarian as well. Most names of documents and orders are in Czech, names of people are Bulgarian, and names of cities have Bulgarian and Czech parts of them.
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Sebastianbourg
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Founded: Apr 06, 2013
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Postby Sebastianbourg » Sun Oct 26, 2014 8:20 pm

English: Received Pronunciation
French: Parisian (Bassin parisien)
German: Viennese
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Aikoland
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Founded: Dec 22, 2011
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Postby Aikoland » Tue Oct 28, 2014 1:16 pm

Considering that we're composed of the former countries of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, our accent when speaking English sounds like someone from Japan, Korea, or Taiwan speaking English. Depends on where in Aikoland you are mind, obviously someone from the Korean part will have a different accent from someone in another part and vice versa.
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A small Francophone nation located on a group of islands to the south of France. Primary territory of the nation consists of three main islands, the states as described in our national motto, along with smaller less populated islands surrounding them.
Official Nation Name: The Empire of Aikoland
Government Type: Parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Head of State: Empress Élisabeth IV
Head of Government: Prime Minister Mélodie Bélanger
Population: 6.07 million (2023 estimate)
Official Language: French
Current Year: 2023

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Wintanceastre
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Posts: 436
Founded: Oct 26, 2014
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Postby Wintanceastre » Tue Oct 28, 2014 1:59 pm

The accent of Wintanceastre varies by region, so much so that in some areas an accent can change by village. The accents of Wintanceastre are often grouped into Southern, Eastern, Northern, Western, and Capital region. British Received Pronunciation is typically found amongst the upper class and is taught in private schools throughout the nation. Received Pronunciation is a socio-economic accent and not a geographical accent.
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Torvalyn
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Founded: Aug 17, 2013
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Postby Torvalyn » Thu Oct 30, 2014 2:39 am

Somewhere in between a Danish accent and New Zealand accent (this is how it sounds when Torvaliners speak English).
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Cora II
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Founded: Jun 27, 2014
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Postby Cora II » Thu Oct 30, 2014 2:52 am

'Corish' - Finglish. English with Fenno-Ugristic syntactic structures, limited grammar and vocabulary = Northern Cimmerian Mountain accent with heavy tendency invent new words, use terms in semantically wrong contexts, generally blunt, straightforward and low styled pidgin, particularly that if spoken when severely drunken.

(The Speaker of Corish has been warned by Moderation at least thrice due these linguistic characteristics) :p

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Greater Beggnig
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Founded: Jan 10, 2013
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Postby Greater Beggnig » Thu Oct 30, 2014 2:57 am

Our accent is similar to South-Slavic accents, however, it is closer to a Serbian accent than a Croatian one.
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Braberbourg
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Founded: Sep 05, 2014
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Postby Braberbourg » Thu Oct 30, 2014 3:54 am

The citizens of Braberbourg spreak the Braberbourger dialect, which is a sub-dialect of Low Alemannic, which is itself a sub-dialect of High German, etc. Our citizens tend to speak more rapid and pronounce certain words in a more Romantic (as in the Romantic Languages) style, while a lot of daily words are derived from French. However, these aren't grammatically correct and our politicians speak Standard German.

When speaking English, our citizens sound like the typical German except the fact that the famous 'z' sound in 'th' (example: Ze phone is ringing) often rather sounds like a short 'd'* sound (example: De** phone is ringing). Shorter words such as 'is' are often replaced by the German equivalent, like 'ist' (example: The phone ist ringing).

*Most likely caused due to French influences.
**Sounds the same as in the Dutch word 'de'.
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Beaatrae
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Posts: 12
Founded: Jan 24, 2014
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Postby Beaatrae » Thu Oct 30, 2014 5:21 am

The Beaatraen accent is generally Irish/German/English if you could imagine such a thing. Sometimes "ch" is pronounced as a "k". Tsutegne (the capital city of Beaatrae), is pronounced "su-tay-n". "O" is pronounced slightly like "oo" e.g. Gud (meaning good), is pronounced almost g-ood.

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Tolmakia
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Posts: 1910
Founded: Jun 05, 2014
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Postby Tolmakia » Thu Oct 30, 2014 2:55 pm

The accent of Tolmakia is similar to those of British.
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