Corpora: Sound picture of known world languages

[Yuri Tambovtsev]

Dear colleagues, thank you all who answer me. I'd like to answer your question that was in all your messages. Why it is important to compute the phonemic frequencies of occurrence in a language. Every language has this or that unigue sound picture. One can intuitively feel that language A is different from language B hearing the sound picture of a language. The phonemic frequencies of occurrence create this or that sound mosaic of a language. We can compare world languages with each other after we obtain the sound picture of every world language. Now linguists believe that there are about 4000 or 5000 languages in the world. However, unfortunately, there are only 120 data on phonemeic frequency of occurrence I that I could collect for world languages. This is why, I urge world linguists to join our group of phoneticians who investigate the sound picture of world languages. Looking forward to hearing from you soon to my email address: yutamb at hotmail.com Remain yours most hopefully Yuri Tambovtsev
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