Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
4 thoughts on “Language quiz”
I’m going to put myself down for something coming from South East Asia, but that’s based on nothing more than rhythm and accent. This one rings very few bells for me.
The only bell that rings for me maybe dung rather than dong is Malay Indonesian region.
It sounds very Tibeto-Burman, most likely from somewhere around the Arunachal Pradesh (India), Kachin (Burma) and Yunnan (China) region.
It could also be from the Hmong-Mien family because the intonation pattern sort of reminds me of Hmong.
But it’s definitely not Malayo-Polynesian, Tai-Kadai or Austro-Asiatic.
The answer is Nung/Anong (Nawpha) – a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Fugong County in China, and in Kachin State in Burma/Myanmar.
I’m going to put myself down for something coming from South East Asia, but that’s based on nothing more than rhythm and accent. This one rings very few bells for me.
The only bell that rings for me maybe dung rather than dong is Malay Indonesian region.
It sounds very Tibeto-Burman, most likely from somewhere around the Arunachal Pradesh (India), Kachin (Burma) and Yunnan (China) region.
It could also be from the Hmong-Mien family because the intonation pattern sort of reminds me of Hmong.
But it’s definitely not Malayo-Polynesian, Tai-Kadai or Austro-Asiatic.
The answer is Nung/Anong (Nawpha) – a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Fugong County in China, and in Kachin State in Burma/Myanmar.
The recording comes from the GRN.