I would like to inform you about the recent release of the first French-Udmurt bilingual book.

Udmurt language is a Finno-Ugric language spoken in the present Russian Federation.
Here is an extract from the official press release from the website of the Tangyra organisation :
"On June, 8th 2007 the first book in Udmurt and French languages was released in Tartu (Estonia) – “Guide de Conversation Français-Oudmourte – Удмурт-Француз кылбугор” (French-Udmurt Conversation Guide). The initiator of the project is the Association “TANGYRA”, that launched the project in 2006. The project was supported by the Program of kindred nations (Hõimurahvuste programm, Estonia) and „Oshmes” organization of the Udmurts from Estonia. The main aim of the book is to foster friendship between Udmurt and French speaking people. This book aims at enabling both Udmurt-speaking and French speaking people to communicate between them.
The book is destined as well to French speaking people as to Udmurt speaking people, so information are given about the two languages and cultures.
The book contains a short description of the Udmurt and French people, alphabets and phonetics, the conversation guide itself with sentences for daily life, an elementary grammar of Udmurt and French languages and a short French-Udmurt and Udmurt-French dictionary in order to give the possibility to the reader to adapt and widen the content of the book as he wishes. In the beginning of every chapter there are cultural remarks about the following subject.
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The team who created the book is international and consists in professionals and beginners: Udmurt language part was realized by Svetlana Edygarova, postgraduate student of the Tartu University, French language by Benoit Mantel, the president of the Association “TANGYRA”, the expert for French language is Eva Toulouze, doctor of philological sciences, the expert for Udmurt language is Vadim Danilov, postgraduate student of the Tartu University, graphics and design – Charlotte Giaquinta.
The team of the book believes that the French-Udmurt Conversation Guide will help many people to make discoveries and to find more friends."
For more information : tangyra@gmail.com