Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
6 thoughts on “Language quiz”
Wow, this one’s all over the place! It seems to be (mildly) tonal, has a retroflex n, an unrounded back vowel, a prominent rolling r, an almost ejective-like dental affricate and possibly a syllabic/initial velar nasal as well. Combining those factors I can’t think of anything more specific than (South-)East Asian, perhaps Dravidic, but I wouldn’t be shocked if it turned out to be something else entirely.
(Make that “perhaps Indo-Aryan”, not “perhaps Dravidic”…)
I agree with Drabkikker that it is most likely spoken in India. But I don’t think it’s an Indo-Aryan language, rather a Munda language (Santali?).
This has to be Malyalam 🙂
It sounds very Dravidian. We’ve had Kannada, Tulu and Tamil on these quizzes before.
The only other major Dravidian language I can think of is Malayalam and so I’ll go with that.
The answer is Kurumba, a Dravidian language spoken in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in India.
Wow, this one’s all over the place! It seems to be (mildly) tonal, has a retroflex n, an unrounded back vowel, a prominent rolling r, an almost ejective-like dental affricate and possibly a syllabic/initial velar nasal as well. Combining those factors I can’t think of anything more specific than (South-)East Asian, perhaps Dravidic, but I wouldn’t be shocked if it turned out to be something else entirely.
(Make that “perhaps Indo-Aryan”, not “perhaps Dravidic”…)
I agree with Drabkikker that it is most likely spoken in India. But I don’t think it’s an Indo-Aryan language, rather a Munda language (Santali?).
This has to be Malyalam 🙂
It sounds very Dravidian. We’ve had Kannada, Tulu and Tamil on these quizzes before.
The only other major Dravidian language I can think of is Malayalam and so I’ll go with that.
The answer is Kurumba, a Dravidian language spoken in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in India.
The recording comes from the GRN.