Feathered Serpent fun fact: Oaxacas indigenous languages include some of the worlds most complex tonal systems. The Triqui and Chatino languages use at least five levels of relative pitch! Tone patterns are so familiar among Chinantec and Mazatec speakers that entire sentences can even be whistled! This is useful for carrying information across Oaxacas vast mountain ranges. Here are some sample phrases spoken in Cuicatec, so named by the Aztecs for the song-like sound of their language. https://youtube/watch?v=7ap3rWqrQZw
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 18:51:07 +0000
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