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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Corpora colleagues,
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>we cannot understand why the funds for the
endangered languages are not interested in the Corpora of the endangered
languages or the texts in these languages in the elelctronic form?
Electronic form is the form of the future. It makes the texts available to all
the linguists in the world. Our small group of linguists and students is still
working on saving the texts of the smaller world languages in computer
electronic form. This time we have fed into computer the texts of the language
of Soqotra. Soqotra is spoken on the island of Soqotra, which is situated in the
Arabian sea a short distance from the Horn of Africa. It belongs to the Semitic
languages. We are looking forward to hearing from those who can advise us on the
inventory of Soqotra phonemes from the point of articulation, that is the place
of articulation and the manner of articulation of Soqotra phonemes. We are also
looking forward to hearing to our correct e-mail address <A
href="mailto:yutamb@hotmail.com">yutamb@hotmail.com</A> from those who knows if
the data on the frequency of occurrence of Sokotra speech sounds were published?
If not what linguistic journal could publish our data on the frequency of
occurrence of Sokotra speech sounds? The frequency of speech sounds give us a
sound picture of a language which is quite different from the analogical sound
picture in any other language in the world. Hope to hear from those
interested to <A href="mailto:yutamb@hotmail.com">yutamb@hotmail.com</A> Yours
sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev </FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>