<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=koi8-r">
<META content="MSHTML 5.50.3825.1300" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Corpora colleagues, I have been
trying to get the texts in the American Indian languages to compare its phonemic
frequencies with the analogical data on the frequency of phonemic occurrence in
the other 167 world languages. I was lucky enough to receive it from Dr. Frank
Hardy. In fact it is a book by Frank Hardy and Tony Goldtooth "Walking with
Jusus" in Navajo. Now, the question is: must I feed it into my computer to count
the frequency of occurrence of Navajo phonemes in its speech chain or it has
been already computed and published? If no, then I need to know what labial,
front, palatal, back, sonorant, occlussive, fricative and voiced consonants are
defined in Navajo? What vowels are there? I wonder if anybody can help me with
the classification of Navajo speech sounds? May be some other linguists can send
me their books in other American Indian languages? Or just texts on
paper? Looking forward to hearing from you soon to <A
href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru">yutamb@mail.ru</A> Remain yours sincerely, Yuri
Tambovtsev, Dept of English and Linguistics of NPU, P.O. Box
104, Novosibirsk-123, 630123,
Russia</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>