Sounds
All Southern Athabaskan languages have somewhat similar phonologies. The description below will concentrate mostly on Western Apache. You can expect minor variations of this description in other related languages (e.g., cf. Navajo, Jicarilla, Chiricahua).
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Famous quotes containing the word sounds:
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Augusta: Well, that sounds almost human.”
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“The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence.”
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“When they sometimes
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Behind the door and headboard of the bed,
Brushing their chalky skull with chalky fingers,
With sounds like the dry rattling of a shutter,”
—Robert Frost (18741963)