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North Wind and the Sun in Czech.
Czech is a West Slavic language which is spoken by about 10 million people in the Czech Republic. According to Dankovicova (1999) Czech has 25 consonants, 5 vowels and 3 falling diphthongs. This translation of the North Wind and the Sun was recorded in the Phonetics Laboratory of Edinburgh University in 1952. The speaker is unknown.
• Recording.
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• References.
Dankovicova, Jana. 1999. Czech. Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the usage of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 70–73.
Šimáčková, Šárka and Jonáš Podlipský, Václav. 2012. Illustrations of the IPA: Czech spoken in Bohemia and Moravia. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 42. 225–232. Cambridge University Press.
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