Link collection: online sound recordings of languages

[Noriega]

I thought this could be a link collection of pages which have downloadable sound files for various languages.

http://lacito.archivage.vjf.cnrs.fr/archives/Caucase/
Languages from the Caucasus (found by aardwolf)

http://www.everytongue.com/learn.htm
Some prayers in about 200 languages, then a movie (about Jesus of course) in about 800 languages!

http://archive.phonetics.ucla.edu/archive.htm
UCLA Phonetics Lab Language Archive: recordings with accompanying word lists in about 100 languages, many of them rather obscure.

http://globalrecordings.net/languages
Global Recordings Network, different Christian stories in a lot of languages. Once you've found a language, click on it and look under the heading Recordings available. If there is a little icon of a speaker (), it means that recordings are available online.

[Jipí]

Don't forget the page of the Linguistics dept. of the University of Victoria: http://web.uvic.ca/ling/resources/ipa/h ... nloads.htm

[Delalyra]

This page has a short passage of The Little Prince in many languages. The site's in German, but it's easy to navigate anyways.

[Das Baron]

"Poem for Peace" - A poem spoken in twenty or so different languages
http://chrw.usc.uwo.ca/mp3/2002/Kemp%2C ... e/kemp.htm

"Full Circle" - Another poem translated into a crapload of natlangs
http://www.languageportraits.net/

Cool. Omniglot often has links to forran language radio, too, at the end of each language's page.

Sorry, gotta nitpick here, but it's spelled foreign.

[dwk]

Native English Speakers

I'd also like to link to this.

Norwegian Dialects

Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) in mp3 audio format

http://rferl.org/listen/ (Some of the languages include Chechen and other ?exotic? Caucasian languages.)

http://www.rfa.org/english/ (Includes broadcasts in Tibetan, Uighur etc)

Radio NL Wereldomroep's site for more radio links

[aardwolf]

http://lacito.archivage.vjf.cnrs.fr/archives/Caucase/

That's right folks! Listen to Ubykh here!

http://www.gaelcast.com for Gàidhlig podcasts.

EDIT: changed <?> to <à>.

[Klaivas]

People of #isharia (and anyone else), here are the recordings of Albanian /c/ (<q>) and /J\/ (<gj>) that you wanted:
http://www.cliveth.co.uk/vlad/uploads/albanian.mp3

Words (in the order that they're spoken):
quajnë
mirëmëngjes
që
gjë
çek
çeqe

As you can hear, they don't sound very much like /c/ or /J\/

Note: <ç> is /tS/

[Io]

The Speech Accent Archive: http://accent.gmu.edu/

Here you can listen to broadcasts in Ladino, Yiddish and Arbiya l'Mugrabiya.

[Noriega]

English Accents and Dialects
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/search/ ... p=val_form

A very good site, with recordings of British dialects, all the way from the 50's. The audio files (WMA) are accompanied by notes about the vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation, in its turn accompanied by SAMPA!

I recommend this one: http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/persona ... 1U00006C01
The speaker is from Northumberland, where a lot of vikings settled centuries earlier, and to my ears this sounds like a Dane trying to speak English, or even some bizarre Danish dialect. It's fascinating!

[Risla]

I love all things UniLang, and that includes the Sonidos del Mundo project.

http://home.unilang.org/resources/prons ... php?lng=en

[Noriega]

North Germanic languages
Swedish
http://www.sr.se/webbradio/webbradio.asp?id=p1 - The channel P1 has almost no music, only speech.

Danish
http://netradio.dr.dk/content.asp?station=1 - Danish P1 is another "speech channel".

Norwegian
http://www.nrk.no/nettradio/?kanal=p1 - In the menu at the top right hand corner of the popup window, choose the channel "NRK Alltid Nyheter", it means "Always News".

Icelandic
http://dagskra.ruv.is/streaming/ras1/live/ - Channels Rás 1 and Rás 2. You can always choose a date in the calendar and find the link 18.00 Kvöldfréttir, it’s the evening news.

Faroese
http://www.uf.fo/realaudio.asp - This seems to be links to the latest newscast, they are in mp3 format.

[Jipí]

Faroese
http://www.uf.fo/realaudio.asp - This seems to be links to the latest newscast, they are in mp3 format.

Funny, it reminds me a little bit of Kardii Or, Icelandic + Skandinavian + English maybe.

[Pie Man]

There's this site which consists of mostly radio advertisements in over 50 languages.

[Zerrakhi]

The Swedish dialects page is superbly laid out. (I just wish I could find dialect collections of equal quality for other countries.)

[Noriega]

The Swedish dialects page is superbly laid out. (I just wish I could find dialect collections of equal quality for other countries.)

It’s a great resource!

Here’s a map of the same list, for those who want to see:
http://swedia.ling.gu.se/info/litenkarta.html

Here is a somewhat similar page for German dialects:
http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~naeser/dial-aud.htm

And for Portuguese dialects:
http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/cvc/hlp/ ... apa06.html
http://www.instituto-camoes.pt/cvc/hlp/ ... apa07.html

[Halmentar]

Kashubian

http://univ.gda.pl/~literat/remus/index.htm#spis

Download mp3 files. These are recordings of a book written in Kashubian.

[캉탁]

It’s a great resource!

I agree, and other than being specifically resordings, I don't see why this thread shouldn't be merged with the already fruitful resources thread.

[Zerrakhi]

It’s a great resource!

I agree, and other than being specifically resordings, I don't see why this thread shouldn't be merged with the already fruitful resources thread.

Nah, the resources thread is so big that it's unweildy; IMO it's much more practical to have several small and sweet threads for links on a given theme.

Put it this way. Had this thread been as long as the resources thread, I would not have contributed the Swedish dialects link. It would have been a lot more trouble to check whether or not someone had already done so.

[캉탁]

Nah, the resources thread is so big that it's unweildy; IMO it's much more practical to have several small and sweet threads for links on a given theme.

More practical to have several threads that will possibly grow to be as large as, or larger than a thread that they coud just as easily have gone into? I don't see how.

Put it this way. Had this thread been as long as the resources thread, I would not have contributed the Swedish dialects link. It would have been a lot more trouble to check whether or not someone had already done so.

Oh, laziness, good enough reason I guess.

[Noriega]

Whoa, Galician dialects!

http://www.culturagalega.org/pruebas/an ... /index.php

Click the links to the left to the different "bloque"’s, and you will see more links.

Sano: Like Zerrakhi said, it’s good to have niched collections, many of the language resource pages online have no sound examples whatsoever

[캉탁]

Sano: Like Zerrakhi said, it’s good to have niched collections, many of the language resource pages online have no sound examples whatsoever

Yeah, ok.

http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/index/language.html

One stop shopping.

[Avaja]

Sámi
http://www.helsinki.fi/~sugl_smi/aani/Kielinaytteet/ - five recordings in Sámi languages: Inari, Skolt, Lule, North and Ume
http://www.helsinki.fi/~sugl_smi/aani/Kansallislaulut/ - the Sámi national song in six languages: Inari, Kildin, Lule, North, Skolt, South
http://www.sr.se/sameradion/ - Swedish Sámi radio; music and programmes in North, South and Lule Sámi (click on "Lyssna direkt")
http://www.sr.se/podradio/xml/same_oddasat.xml - News in North Sámi

Groups/artists that perform in Sámi languages:
Tiina Sanila (Skolt), Mari Boine (North), Áigi (North), Niko Valkeapää (North), Amoc (Inari), Almetjh Tjöönghkeme (South), Shaman (North)

Estonian

http://www.eki.ee/murded/ - Estonian dialects, sound files and transcriptions

Groups/artists that perform in Estonian:
Vennaskond, Nexus, Dagö, Vanilla Ninja, Terminaator, Hellad Velled, Untsakad, Ruja, Meie Mees, Smilers

[Mbwa]

Some people might find this amusing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tycaXrZPZMM. If you look under related videos you'll find more languages, and if you just search Lion King (insert desired language here), you'll probably get results.

[Mbwa]

And this:
http://www.cateeslanguageworld.com/pimsleur/samples.php

[Io]

Radio and TV Chuvashia:

TV programmes archive: http://www.chuvashia-tv.ru/archivetv/
Radio programmes archive: http://www.chuvashia-tv.ru/archiveradio/

Looks like most radio files aren't working, you just have to click until you find one that's working. A lot of the TV programmes with Chuvash names are in Russian, some begin in Russian but later there is Chuvash and some are entirely in Chuvash.