Languages, accents, sounds....

[Spoon]

I'm curious after reading the anachronism thread about everyone's perception of in-game languages and accents.

What do you think they sound like? I mean, it'd be great if they sounded COMPLETELY origional, but my brain doesn't work like that. Instead, I steal accents from the real world, like I guess most people would.

Anyway, the only example I can think of at the moment is, for some reason, 'rinthi accented sirihish ALWAYS comes out in my head sounding like Oliver-Twist style, "Alright guvna'.." cockney.

Thoughts?

[Bestatte]

Tuluk nobility and "important" people: slightly cropped "english" accent, but nothing overt. Sort of like the accent a shakespearean actor would use, without the shakespearean lingo.

Allanak nobility and "important" people: Almost Bostonian, but not quite. The whole clenched-teeth "Haahvaahd Yahd" thing, with more subtlety.

Warrens: Something similar to cockney.

Rinth: More like Brooklyn.

Commoners of each city: nothing comes to mind.

Anyali: a gutteral slavic/russian/swedish kinda thing.

Other tribal human types (including the Tan Muark): definitely romanian accent, with the Muark's being the most pronounced.

Desert elves: varies, but all including some kind of hissing at one point or another

[Cuusardo]

I always think of southerners as having a drawl.

*ba-dum-ching!*

Edit: With all the pops, clicks, and whistles that is part of the Anyali language, it would be more like an African bush tribe, or the Aborigines.

[Selie]

All I know is, I finally heard a gypsy accent, and I am convinced that it is the sort of thing that would be used in Zalanthan movies to make female audience members swoon. It sounded cool.

[Revelations]

Oh dear, seems we have another thread about language. I made the same mistake, so don't worry. The search tool helps alot though, for future reference.

http://www.zalanthas.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=13786&highlight=language+accent