| From: | Ed Heil <edheil@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 21, 1999, 23:19 |
It seems that whenever I am reading up on phonology or phonetics, I can count on references to the most obscene and extreme sounds as elements of the Georgian tongue. I would not be a bit surprised to discover that Georgian includes a "labio-tummy trill," made by pressing one's face against the interlocutor's belly and blowing a raspberry. + Ed Heil ---------------------- edheil@postmark.net + | "What matter that you understood no word! | | Doubtless I spoke or sang what I had heard | | In broken sentences." --Yeats | +----------------------------------------------------+ Boudewijn Rempt wrote:> On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Htmlwrote:> > > > > i still do that like i would listen to music. armenian is a favorite : it > > goes like kizrambash keshturumvag ascharkan digidig dagadag dugudug for > > minutes :-) glad i don't have to learn it. > > > > mathias > > > > Yesterday night I came across a Georgian grammar, that included > a wav file of Georgian - wonderful! I found it on the web of grammars, > which appears not to have been updated for at least three years :-(. > > Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt >