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Yuyencia
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Postby Yuyencia » Thu Jun 20, 2019 4:21 am

are plenty rolled tongue r sound produce
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Postby Rhodesia-Zimbabwe » Thu Jun 20, 2019 4:26 am

There are a lot of demographics. Those of British ancestry sound British, although some of them use SA and Shona slang. The Afrikaners sound like Afrikaners, and the Mashona sound like Mashona.
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Ko-oren
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Postby Ko-oren » Fri Jun 21, 2019 11:39 am

English is only one of many languages spoken here. Most of the time, if someone speaks English it's their second language and therefore will have hints of their first language. For those that speak English as a first language, it's pretty IRL southern hemisphere-like: hints of South African, Australian and New Zealander accents.

Some features:

Words like lad are pronounced with /ɛ/, sometimes /æ/
Words like lad are pronounced with /ɪ/~/i/, or even /ə/. This depends heavily on the speaker, and may even differ based on (phonological) context.

/p/, /t/ and /k/ are often lose aspiration. /t/ often changes to /d/ or /ɾ/ between vowels.
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Cunenia
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Postby Cunenia » Fri Jun 21, 2019 12:25 pm

Common features of a White or Coloured Cunenian accent when speaking English:
  • Vowel raising and shortening
  • Final obstruent devoicing
  • Nonaspiration
  • Trilled or tapped R
  • Awkward or unnatural prosody or tonality


Among Blacks, the accent can either be:
  • Over-nasalisation
  • Palatisation of consonants before mid- to close-front vowels
  • Tapped R with uvular trill word-initially
Or:
  • Vowel raising and shortening
  • Final obstruent devoicing
  • Interdental fricative > stop
  • Trilled or tapped R
  • Obstruent deletion
  • Cluster simplification
Depending on whether the native language of the individual is Portuguese or a Bantu language.
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Vallermoore
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Postby Vallermoore » Sat Jun 22, 2019 6:11 pm

With a bit of an American accent in fact.

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Pazleimia 2
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Postby Pazleimia 2 » Fri Jul 05, 2019 2:59 am

General Pazleimian - I guess its like a normal British person speaking. Nothing majorly special about it; just generalised speech across the country.
Armian/Armestonian - An accent that blends as an English and French person speaking, as Armeston City was known for it's French settlers.
Glennan - The original Scottish settlers of Glenhaven brought their thick, highlander accent with them as they settled. Glenhaven's Main Street is 'Sraid', which plainly means 'Street' in Scottish Gaelic.
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Borovan entered the region as he
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Postby Borovan entered the region as he » Fri Jul 05, 2019 6:12 am

British upper class accent in the well to do areas normal elsewhere

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Ieskarios
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Postby Ieskarios » Fri Jul 05, 2019 10:33 pm

Hellenic Ieskaris (the main demographic) have a similar accent to many northern Greeks around Macedonia and northern Thessaly.

The Varanian minority speak (depending on their location) either with the regular Ieskari accent, or (in rural areas) with the Varanian accent. This accent sounds mostly like a thick Albanian accent with some minor Greek vocabulary in between.
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Abalos
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Postby Abalos » Sat Jul 06, 2019 8:28 am

The English of Abalos is typically indistinguishable from general- to broad-Australian English, as most of the settlers brought in were lower- to middle-class Australians fleeing overpopulation in the early part of the 22nd century.

COMMON FEATURES of ABALESE ENGLISH
  • Abalese English is non-rhotic; that is, the /r/ sound does not appear at the end of a syllable or immediately before a consonant. However, a linking /r/ can occur when a word that has a final <r> in the spelling comes before another word that starts with a vowel
  • Similarly, an "intrusive /r/" may similarly be inserted before a vowel in words that do not have <r> in the spelling in certain environments, namely after the long vowel /oː/ and after word final /ə/
  • There is some degree of allophonic variation in the alveolar stops; prevocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar tap [ɾ] after sonorants other than /m, ŋ/ as well as at the end of a word or morpheme before any vowel in the same breath group
  • The wine-whine merger is complete; that is, historical /ʍ/ is pronounced as /w/
  • Yod-dropping occurs after /s/, /z/ and, /θ/; Other cases of /sj/ and /zj/, along with /tj/ and /dj/, have coalesced to /ʃ/, /ʒ/, /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ respectively for many speakers
    • Fun fact: from the latter phenomenon comes an informal name for rural Abalese people, Junies, from Dune
  • The phoneme /l/ is pronounced as a "dark" (velarised) L ([ɫ]) in all positions
  • Unusually among English varieties, there exist long and short pairs of vowels with overlapping vowel quality, such as /e/ versus /eː/ in head versus haired.
  • The weak-vowel merger is complete: unstressed /ɪ/ is merged into /ə/ (schwa), unless it is followed by a velar consonant.
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Yawkland
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Postby Yawkland » Sat Jul 06, 2019 12:30 pm

Modern yuppie American douchebag speaks using 19th century vocabulary. A minority of people have British accents (both English and Scottish).
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A democratic and prosperous, but insular nation founded by wealthy Anglo-American Protestants and British aristocrats in the 1860s. Today it is run by their fashionable descendants who enjoy playing squash and participating in the latest diet fads.

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Union of Sovereign States and Republics
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Postby Union of Sovereign States and Republics » Sat Jul 06, 2019 5:15 pm

The accent most associated with the USSR is the stereotypical Russian Bond villain type, though other accents are prevalent, especially Central Asian/Turkish accents.
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Thermodolia
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Postby Thermodolia » Sat Jul 06, 2019 5:42 pm

The English Thermodolia accent is a mix of French and Russian
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Vulpixa
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Postby Vulpixa » Sun Jul 07, 2019 8:43 am

The accent sounds similar to British English, but it's ultimately not the same. Vulpixes (the native species, both actual Vulpix and Gijinka Vulpix) will have a bit of Japanese in the voice, and sometimes you can even hear slight tones of actual Vulpix accent (Vulpix's Anime Voice) in there if the speaker is female. The voice is mostly just American, though.

On the other hand, humans will have varied accents. Mostly it will be a voice similar to the Vulpix population, but without the Vulpix accent. If you get near certain areas, you can hear various Eastern European accents as well.

Other species have their own particular accent as well.
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Themyscia
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Postby Themyscia » Sun Jul 07, 2019 12:05 pm

The accents of Themyscia are that of Greek, given Themyscia essentially covers the entirety of what would be Greece, Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Kosovo. However the accents of the other countries never really developed and were overpowered.

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Mordka
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Postby Mordka » Wed Jan 22, 2020 10:36 pm

More like an American accent.

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Gylthas
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Postby Gylthas » Wed Jan 22, 2020 10:54 pm

It sounds like a Northern English accent.
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Albion and the Pales
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Postby Albion and the Pales » Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:12 am

There are a variety of accents in Albion, the most common colloquial accents resemble the Welsh valleys accent or the English "West Country" accent. In the north of the country, the most common accents resemble the Geordie and Scottish accents.

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The On Mhokhor
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Postby The On Mhokhor » Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:57 am

Mukhur-accented English sounds quite odd. Vowels are often simplified, and Mukhur vowel harmony is often applied(bedroom-->bodrom/bedrem). Mukhur accents are also quite rhoticised, and consonants softened.

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Prozitia
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Postby Prozitia » Thu Jan 23, 2020 4:01 am

Imagine a Russian speaking English but with a touch of Latin and Prozitian characteristics.
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Madrinet
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Postby Madrinet » Thu Jan 23, 2020 6:28 am

Madrinetans are often perceived as struggling with English R and Th sounds, which are pronounced as 'w' and 'd' sounds respectively. Because long vowels are almost ubiquitous in Madrinetan, it greatly influences the pronunciation of foreign words - for example, the word 'pet' is pronounced 'peet' by Madrinetans unfamiliar with English.
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Tarchuna and Ravenna
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Postby Tarchuna and Ravenna » Thu Jan 23, 2020 6:32 am

We have two national languages: English and Etruscan. We speak English like those in southern England, but use the American spelling. Etruscan has roughly the same pronounciation rules as Latin.

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Ginicun
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Postby Ginicun » Fri May 01, 2020 1:11 pm

hell if i know
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i'm also a music fan, mainly into progressive/Avant/experimental type stuff.
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Monsone
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Postby Monsone » Fri May 01, 2020 1:14 pm

It's almost identical to American English from New York, but without the accent, so it sounds quite neutral pronunciation-wise yet angry at all times thanks to it's intonation.
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Soled
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Postby Soled » Fri May 01, 2020 2:09 pm

Imagine a Swede speaking English with as much skill as a German, but they don't have any trouble with the "w" or "th" sounds.
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Roedean
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Postby Roedean » Fri May 01, 2020 2:33 pm

Sort of like the New Zealand accent.
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