Language Demos

This website offers you the possibility to learn linguistically relevant facts about many foreign languages, train your hearing, and get to know phonetic phenomena on the basis of natural speech data. All resources used either come from illustrations of the International Phonetic Association (IPA), the famous Sounds of the World's Languages (SoWL) by Ladefoged & Maddieson, or the Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing (IPS) at the University of Munich that hosts this website.

Quick introduction:
▸ Play button. If the speech data is arranged in a tabular manner, they can be played row- and columnwise by clicking on the row- or columnname, respectively.
emu WebApp Opens a new tab which displays the oscillogram and sonagram in the emu-WebApp.
      (Note: At the moment the link does not work with the Microsoft Edge Browser.)
Opens an image with the pre-set sonagram of the corresponding sound file when clicking on it.

You can access the language demos via the LANGUAGE INDEX or the PHENOMENA INDEX:

Language Index

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A
Agul
American English
Amharic
Arabic
Arrernte

B
Bulgarian
Bura

C
Cantonese
Catalan
Czech

D
Danish

E
Ewe

F
French

G
German
Gujarati

H
Hausa
Hindi
Hungarian

I
Ibibio
Icelandic
Igbo
Irish

J
Japanese

K
Korean

L

M
Malayalam
Mandarin
Mazatec
Mpi

N
Nama
Nepali
Ngwo
Norwegian

O

P
Persian
Polish
Portuguese

Q
Quechua

R
Russian

S
Sindhi
Spanish

T
Tamil
Temne
Thai
Toda
Turkish

U

V

W

X
!Xóõ

Y
Yanyuwa
Yoruba

Z
Zulu


Phenomena Index

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Laryngealization

Multiple Voicing Contrasts

/r/-Sounds

Secondary Articulations

Simple Allophonic Differences

Tone

Voice Quality

Voice Onset Time (VOT)