Re: Haha: Listen to Genesis in Kalaallisut

From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...>

> 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. :-))))
More than a bit monotonous, but good. Both Kalaallisut and German do have
the voiced uvular fricative at least.

I think I might have a German or French text-to-speech program, or maybe
just English. I wish there was one that recognized IPA, or maybe there
is....

OT PS: Did Luther refer to Genesis as 1 Moses?

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