Tsez
PDFs
Brief biography of the language consultant
Narrative: The Hen and The Rooster (audio files temporarily disabled)
Vocabulary List with Audio
Tsez, a Nakh-Dagestanian language of the North Caucasus, has many phonemes, many of which are not found in English or other Indo-European languages and are generally rare cross-linguistically. The following are the Tsez words recorded to illustrate interesting features of Tsez phonetics.
pes ‘shoo!’
p’es ‘voice, sound’
tem ‘clover’
t’em ‘snap (sound made with the fingers)’
ci ‘name’
c’i ‘fire’
čit ‘small piece’
č’ir ‘ribbon, string’
čoti ‘(Georgian) bread’
č’ot’i ‘haricot bean’
kača ‘bitch’
k’ač ‘long, spacious overcoat’
ka ‘torch’
k’a ‘rhododendron’
kalkal ‘obstacle’
k’al ‘fast (going without food)’
qal ‘bark (of tree)’
q’al ‘swaddling clothes’
ɬi ‘water’
ƛit ‘wasp’
ƛ’iri ‘upwards’
ħon ‘mountain’
ʕomoy ‘donkey’
bay ‘must’
bˁaya ‘windpipe’
beca ‘to thaw’
bˁeč’a ‘to saw’
mo ‘tear (from eye)’
mˁow ‘kind of mushroom’
roƛosi ‘middle (adjective)’
rˁoɬa ‘to bore, to drill’
ɬoč ‘dance’
ɬˁono ‘three’
ƛ’ot’u ‘silt’
ƛ’ˁolu ‘loose piece of skin’