School of Linguistics and International Languages staff have devised an other-worldly sounding dialect for a film that explores an imaginary time in New Zealand’s future. Actors Matthew Sunderland and Aaron Jackson will speak the dialect after receiving coaching by New Zealand-born Dr Paviour-Smith, with advice from Dr Petrucci. “Not being a natural-born New Zealander myself, we decided that Martin be the one to manipulate the dialect to what a New Zealander might sound like in the future,” Dr Petrucci says. "When we devised the dialect we envisaged certain changes in the consonants and vowels along with some interesting new words. Matthew and Aaron will be speaking in English but in variety distinct from what we are used to.”
Click here to read the rest of the article, and you can also listen to some phrases in the new Kiwi language as well.
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