Sound Comparisons: Europe – Paul Heggarty

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Sound Comparisons: Europe

Listen to and explore how the ‘same’ basic words are pronounced so differently in hundreds of regional languages, ‘dialects’ and accents across Europe.
Instant ‘hover and hear’ playback.
Thousands of recordings from over two decades of fieldwork.
Includes little-known diaspora forms across the world, particularly in the Americas, e.g. Pennsylvania ‘Dutch’ and Patagonian Welsh.
A focused site for each of Europe’s historic ‘big four’ language lineages, of 100+ basic words that survive in (almost) all of its languages, dialects and accents.

143 varieties

127 varieties

31 varieties,
+4 Baltic

78 varieties

Phonetic transcriptions in IPA.
Search, filter and save your own custom selections of languages, words and sounds.
Use regular expressions, enter IPA symbols, and sound class shortcuts (e.g. N = any nasal).

Basic numbers and a rare few core words even survive in all the big four together …

Another dedicated site focuses on accents of English across Britain and Ireland, and around the world.
Includes IPA phonetic transcriptions of inferred pronunciations in various historical and ancestral forms of English and Scots.

Accents of English

See also: Indo-European — Sound Comparisons: Andes

Publications

of mine on this research theme of: Europe … and Beyond

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