Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
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Sounds like someone starting off speaking French with a French accent, and then changing over to Navaho, so I’m really curious to find out what it is.
I would guess a French based creole, but I can’t pick out the aspect marker, and I’m not aware of any that developed in the Na-Dene regions.
This language has nothing to do with French, but does have nasal vowels, and is a Na-Dené language.
If ion has already written an article about this language, the presence of nasal vowels, /Ʒ/, and /t’/ suggests Beaver, Chipewyan, Jicarilla, Mescalero-Chiricahua, Navajo, or Tłı̨chǫ. If any of the other Na-Dene languages have allophonic rules anything close to Navajo, we might not be able to rule them out.
The language is Tłı̨chǫ / Dogrib (Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì), a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Sounds like someone starting off speaking French with a French accent, and then changing over to Navaho, so I’m really curious to find out what it is.
I would guess a French based creole, but I can’t pick out the aspect marker, and I’m not aware of any that developed in the Na-Dene regions.
This language has nothing to do with French, but does have nasal vowels, and is a Na-Dené language.
If ion has already written an article about this language, the presence of nasal vowels, /Ʒ/, and /t’/ suggests Beaver, Chipewyan, Jicarilla, Mescalero-Chiricahua, Navajo, or Tłı̨chǫ. If any of the other Na-Dene languages have allophonic rules anything close to Navajo, we might not be able to rule them out.
The language is Tłı̨chǫ / Dogrib (Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì), a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
The recording comes from the GRN.