Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
8 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
If we hadn’t just had Nigeria last week I would put a solid bet on “somewhere in Africa with a French colonial past”.
Definitely African origin and shades of some sort of French influence, Maybe something spoken in in Gabon or Cameroon?
Are we in New Guinea (or elsewhere in Melanesia)?
I think it’s a kind of creole language, maybe Ndyuka from Suriname?
I just looked at the profile for Ndyuka in Omniglot and noticed the word “taki” in the printed example ( I also heard it in the recording) so I wonder if it isn’t indeed Ndyuka.
Yes, and at the end it seems like he says “so long ago”, “one day for…” or “one time for…”
At the beginning the word “Mesai” (messiah?).
I still keep thinking this is an English-based creole of Melanesia, but I could be convinced of just about anything else that has been proposed as well.
The answer is Ndyuka (Aukan), an English-based Creole spoken in parts of Suriname and French Guiana.
If we hadn’t just had Nigeria last week I would put a solid bet on “somewhere in Africa with a French colonial past”.
Definitely African origin and shades of some sort of French influence, Maybe something spoken in in Gabon or Cameroon?
Are we in New Guinea (or elsewhere in Melanesia)?
I think it’s a kind of creole language, maybe Ndyuka from Suriname?
I just looked at the profile for Ndyuka in Omniglot and noticed the word “taki” in the printed example ( I also heard it in the recording) so I wonder if it isn’t indeed Ndyuka.
Yes, and at the end it seems like he says “so long ago”, “one day for…” or “one time for…”
At the beginning the word “Mesai” (messiah?).
I still keep thinking this is an English-based creole of Melanesia, but I could be convinced of just about anything else that has been proposed as well.
The answer is Ndyuka (Aukan), an English-based Creole spoken in parts of Suriname and French Guiana.
The recording comes from YouTube: