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High Cøøvean is an obsolete accent. It was similar to the Transatlantic accent, in that it was an artificial compromise between Fyxoomian and Skellan standard accents. It is the closest thing to a "posh" accent in the Skellan-speaking world; it was largely codified by one man, Llam Saiŋ, as a standard for international eloquent Skellan and was learnt by upper-class people and actors in Fyxoom and Skella but fell out of use after ___. Today it survives in classical singing and in pop culture, where it is mainly reserved for elevated sci-fi, historical fiction or fantasy characters such as gods, kings or superintelligent beings. | High Cøøvean is an obsolete accent. It was similar to the Transatlantic accent, in that it was an artificial compromise between Fyxoomian and Skellan standard accents. It is the closest thing to a "posh" accent in the Skellan-speaking world; it was largely codified by one man, Llam Saiŋ, as a standard for international eloquent Skellan and was learnt by upper-class people and actors in Fyxoom and Skella but fell out of use after ___. Today it survives in classical singing and in pop culture, where it is mainly reserved for elevated sci-fi, historical fiction or fantasy characters such as gods, kings or superintelligent beings. | ||
Nasal vowels are realized as diphthongs with ɤ-offglides, with no nasalization or pharyngealization; Saiŋ considered nasal and pharyngealized vowels to be ugly features. | Nasal vowels are realized as diphthongs with ɤ-offglides, with no nasalization or pharyngealization (similar to older Skellan Eetøøm pronunciation); Saiŋ considered nasal and pharyngealized vowels to be ugly features. | ||
Monophthongs are long in open syllables and short in closed syllables as in Fyxoomian Skellan. | |||
/ĩ ỹ ũ ẽ ø̃ ə̃ õ ɛ̃ ã ɔ̃/ = [iɤ yɤ uɤ ɛjɤ œyɤ ɔwɤ eɤ aɤ oɤ] | |||
===Low Cøøvean=== | ===Low Cøøvean=== | ||