Tu-va Or Not Tu-va? - Forbes.com

Tu-va Or Not Tu-va? - Forbes.com

"My introduction to Tuva was not dissimilar to Feynman's, though it wasn't stamps or a lack of vowels that intrigued me. On Oct. 29, 1978, I conversed with a Tuvan ham radio operator named Sany (call sign: UA0YAE). Afterward, I went to my own atlas to locate the country, but couldn't. I did find Kyzyl, but it seemed to be in Siberia, not Tuva.

Upon further research, I found that in 1944 Tuva (once known as Tannu Tuva) was annexed by the U.S.S.R. and removed from many world maps. But rumor has it there is still language in Tuva's constitution that claims independence and, for whatever reason, Russia lets the language remain. I also found that Tuva is famous for throat singing, the strange art of harmonizing two different notes at the same time in one's throat. "

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