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Re: Haha: Listen to Genesis in Kalaallisut

From:Levi Tooker <lrtooker@...>
Date:Friday, April 23, 2004, 23:36
--On Saturday, April 24, 2004 1:19 AM +0200 Henrik Theiling
<theiling@...> wrote:

> Hi! > > I used a (German) text-to-speech system programmable in Sampa to > compile an MP3 file of the Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) version of > the Genesis text (1. Mose 1). If you want to laught, you should click > this: > > http://www.theiling.de/kalaallisut/bible-1mose01.mp3 > > Note that the speaker is German, so the text-to-speech system probably > speaks Kalaallisut with a heavy German accent. :-) Problems are the > uvular stop and the voiceless l / alveolar lateral voiceless > fricative. But I think her pronunciation is still quite good. :-)))) > > (It took a while to find out that e.g. -?b-b- produces quite a good > *unaspirated* voiceless bilabial stop and -'?b:-b- the corresponding > long one...) > > Bye, > Henrik > > PS: This is not meant to be a religious posting in any way. > I just happen to collect 'Let there be light!' in different > languages. :-) > > -- > ------------------------------ Dr. Henrik Theiling ------------- > Tel: +49 681 83183 04 AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH > Fax: +49 681 83183 20 Stuhlsatzenhausweg 69 > http://www.AbsInt.com/ D-66123 Saarbruecken > Encrypted e-mail preferred. Private: http://www.theiling.de/ > 0x9E314CA5 FA 1C 02 C9 58 04 57 6E 53 9C DF 94 B4 45 AE 24 >
Interesting! Do you have the text so we can follow along? -- Levi Tooker lrtooker@buffalo.edu

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