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Parlez-vous Faroese, Frisian, or Fulfulde?

September 14th, 2005 · No Comments

I went looking for French, and found seven dialects of it–nine, if you count Frankish and Franco-Provençal–among the Language Museum’s online samples. Here’s what they have for F:

Faiwol, Fali (South), Fang, Faroese, Farsi, Fasu, Fe’fe’, Fijian, Finnish, Finnish (Meänkiele), Fipa, Flathead-Kalispel, Folopa, Fon-Gbe, Fordata, Fore, Franco-Provençal, Frankish, French, French (Berrichon), French (Dgernesiais), French (Jerriais), French (Medieval), French (Picard), French (Walloon), Frisian (Northern), Frisian (Western), Friulian, Fulfulde (Adamawa), Fulfulde (Jelgoore), Fulfulde (Kano-Katsina-Bororro), Fulfulde (Pulaar), Fungwa, Ftuna-Aniwa, Ftuna (East), and Fwâi.

For thousands of samples of spoken language–I’ve only listened to English ones like this man from Smith island, Maryland and a
woman from Brooklyn–there’s a wonderful speech accent archive at George Mason University.


Thanks to Niek Hockx for the link to the Language Museum–I don’t remember where I first heard about the Speech Accent Archive…


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