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:
“Try speaking. Say Hello!
Hello. Hello.
What do you hear?
I hear an empty room
You know it sounds that way. And yes, I hear
I think I hear a clock and windows rattling....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“To me, the sea is like a personlike a child that Ive known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when Im out there.”
—Gertrude Ederle (b. 1906)
“When they sometimes
Come down the stairs at night and stand perplexed
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)