Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
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Sounds Slavic (although having the bad habit of mistaking Slavic and Balcanic languages, I could be way off…).
It certainly is Slavic, maybe Czech. But it seems, that it’s not the speaker’s mother language, since he wouldn’t have used the German word “Flüchtlinge” (refugees) twice.,,.
Is this a minor language from Germany or Austria, Sorbian/Wedisch/ Lusation or the Carinthian border
with Slovenia,
Czech it certainly is not. Yet it sounds Slavic, perhaps Polish, although rather bad drunken slurred Polish with strong German accent, which makes it surprisingly unintelligible for a Slavic language. Therefore Sorbian.
This is not a German language by any chance, I guess some Afrikan language or Oceanican language …
I’d say Sorbian, but am far from sure. It will be interesting to learn the answer.
The answer is Sorbian, a Western Slavic language spoken in Upper and Lower Lusatia in Saxony and Brandenburg in Germany. I’m not sure if it is Upper or Lower Sorbian – it’s referred to as serbske/wendisch in the video description.
Well if it has [ɡ] (in native words), it’s Lower Sorbian; Upper Sorbian has shifted the Common Slavic *g to [ɦ], which was subsequently dropped in some positions (and—colloquially—replaced with a glide between vowels). There are remains of a dialect continuum between the two (the Slepo/Schleife dialect) but the farther north the more scattered the speakers are (it pertains in particular to the remaining Lower Sorbian speakers, mostly elderly; from what I’ve heard, they have trouble finding someone to speak it with on a daily basis).
Also afaik it’s some Lower Sorbs who prefer the label ‘Wendisch’ over ‘Sorbisch’ (to separate themselves from Upper Sorbians and Domowina whom they consider kind of pushy and lacking in sensitivity regarding their Lower Sorbian matters; e.g. they historically tried to bring the Lower Sorbian standard in line with theirs to the displeasure of many speakers of the variety).
Sounds Slavic (although having the bad habit of mistaking Slavic and Balcanic languages, I could be way off…).
It certainly is Slavic, maybe Czech. But it seems, that it’s not the speaker’s mother language, since he wouldn’t have used the German word “Flüchtlinge” (refugees) twice.,,.
Is this a minor language from Germany or Austria, Sorbian/Wedisch/ Lusation or the Carinthian border
with Slovenia,
Czech it certainly is not. Yet it sounds Slavic, perhaps Polish, although rather bad drunken slurred Polish with strong German accent, which makes it surprisingly unintelligible for a Slavic language. Therefore Sorbian.
This is not a German language by any chance, I guess some Afrikan language or Oceanican language …
I’d say Sorbian, but am far from sure. It will be interesting to learn the answer.
The answer is Sorbian, a Western Slavic language spoken in Upper and Lower Lusatia in Saxony and Brandenburg in Germany. I’m not sure if it is Upper or Lower Sorbian – it’s referred to as serbske/wendisch in the video description.
The recording comes from YouTube.
Well if it has [ɡ] (in native words), it’s Lower Sorbian; Upper Sorbian has shifted the Common Slavic *g to [ɦ], which was subsequently dropped in some positions (and—colloquially—replaced with a glide between vowels). There are remains of a dialect continuum between the two (the Slepo/Schleife dialect) but the farther north the more scattered the speakers are (it pertains in particular to the remaining Lower Sorbian speakers, mostly elderly; from what I’ve heard, they have trouble finding someone to speak it with on a daily basis).
Also afaik it’s some Lower Sorbs who prefer the label ‘Wendisch’ over ‘Sorbisch’ (to separate themselves from Upper Sorbians and Domowina whom they consider kind of pushy and lacking in sensitivity regarding their Lower Sorbian matters; e.g. they historically tried to bring the Lower Sorbian standard in line with theirs to the displeasure of many speakers of the variety).