Re: Ubykh
| From: | John Quijada <jq_ithkuil@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 30, 2004, 18:12 |
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David H wrote:
>Do any of you know if any sound files of Ubykh being spoken can be found
>on the net? I have searched everywhere for them, but I've only found
>examples of the different "s" sounds in it...I would like to hear a little
>more of this fascinating language. It's so sad that it's now extinct..
>Thanks.
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Sorry, the closest I could find was a fascinating site for learning the
closely related Abkhaz language (native term: Apswa). It has lots of sound
files for Abkhaz phonemes mapped to individual letters of the Abkhaz
alphabet. Many of these sounds are found in Ubykh as well. Unfortunately,
the site is in Russian, and there are no phonetic descriptions of the
sounds other than what can be inferred from the absurd modifications to the
Cyrillic alphabet used in Abkhaz. The URL is
http://www.apsny.net/Lessons/urok.htm.
Click on the first link that says "ypok" (Cyrillic for "urok"), the Russian
word for "lesson". This brings up a nice chart of the Abkhaz letters with
associated sound files.
--John Quijada
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