Sounds
Some characteristics of Chechen include its wealth of consonants and sounds similar to Arabic and the Salishan languages of Northern America and a large vowel system resembling those of Swedish and German.
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“Then sounds the voice of One who like the heart of man
Was once a child who among beasts has lain—
‘Still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my Blood, for thee.’”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
“A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.”
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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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