Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
5 thoughts on “Language quiz”
It is Romanian.
Sounds like a Greek guy reading Romanian text about Moldova.
Some variant of Eastern Romance, but probably not Daco-Romanian proper. Aromanian, perhaps?
The words “Republica Moldova” at 0’02” would make Romanian too obvious a choice. Also, the Slavic phonetic influence is less evident than I would expect for Romanian. I am going to second old_nomad’s guess of Aromanian.
As the overall sound of this clip has, to my ear, echoes of Italian, and I hear a few incidences of /r/ realised as an alveolar approximant (which occurs in some varieties of Albanian), I am guessing that it is a dialect of Aromanian spoken on the Albanian Adriatic coast – Farsherot or Muscopolean.
The answer is Aromanian (Armâneaşti), an Eastern Romance language spoken in Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia
It is Romanian.
Sounds like a Greek guy reading Romanian text about Moldova.
Some variant of Eastern Romance, but probably not Daco-Romanian proper. Aromanian, perhaps?
The words “Republica Moldova” at 0’02” would make Romanian too obvious a choice. Also, the Slavic phonetic influence is less evident than I would expect for Romanian. I am going to second old_nomad’s guess of Aromanian.
As the overall sound of this clip has, to my ear, echoes of Italian, and I hear a few incidences of /r/ realised as an alveolar approximant (which occurs in some varieties of Albanian), I am guessing that it is a dialect of Aromanian spoken on the Albanian Adriatic coast – Farsherot or Muscopolean.
The answer is Aromanian (Armâneaşti), an Eastern Romance language spoken in Greece, Albania, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia
The recording comes from Radio România Internaţional.