need web site for yaqui indians language dictionary?

Question

i need a web site were i can find how the yaqui indians language looks like to see the way you pronounce the words and so on it will be a great help for my son who is studying this language due to the fact that we found out that we are part yaqui and we would like any info on this

Answer 1

Check here to see if you can find what you are looking for.

http://www.pascuayaqui-nsn.gov/departments/education/index.shtml

Unfortunately, there isn't a whole lot of information there. You have to be an enrolled member of the Pascua Yaqui tribe to be able to request educational material.

Aside from that, most Native American tribes did not have a written language so linguists adopted a phonetic alphabet. Once again, unfortunately I can't find a phonetic alphabet listing that is really legible; you can check this one out though.

http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/IPA/images/ipachart.gif

And one last unfortunately, most web browsers do not have fonts that support many of the characters you will find in a phonetic alphabet. I can offer you some tips though.

Double vowels are called glide vowels, this means that the vowel sound is slightly elongated. This is a difficult concept for most people to grasp, let alone pronounce correctly.

The apostrophe, ', usually signifies a glottal stop. Try saying "uh-oh", it sort of sounds like the middle of that word. You can get a better sense of the sound at this link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop

Answer 2

sorry only know how to translate
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