Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
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This is hard. Retroflexes make me think of South Asia and Australia. Palatals make me think of Southeast Asia as well. High back unrounded vowels make me think of Mesoamerica, South America, as well as Southeast Asia. The nasal vowels, possibly non-modal phonation, and tone also point to those last three regions.
So basically I’m still considering about the half of the world.
If my memory serves me right, we had that language before.
Isn’t it one of the Mataco-Guaicurù languages spoken in South America, notably in Argentina?
I’m fairly sure we haven’t had this language before. It’s spoken in Peru.
Well, then it certainly is Urarina.
It simply rang a bell with me because I stumbled upon it being one of those few isolated languages.
The language is indeed Urarina, a language isolate spoken in the Loreto region of northwest Peru.
This is hard. Retroflexes make me think of South Asia and Australia. Palatals make me think of Southeast Asia as well. High back unrounded vowels make me think of Mesoamerica, South America, as well as Southeast Asia. The nasal vowels, possibly non-modal phonation, and tone also point to those last three regions.
So basically I’m still considering about the half of the world.
If my memory serves me right, we had that language before.
Isn’t it one of the Mataco-Guaicurù languages spoken in South America, notably in Argentina?
I’m fairly sure we haven’t had this language before. It’s spoken in Peru.
Well, then it certainly is Urarina.
It simply rang a bell with me because I stumbled upon it being one of those few isolated languages.
The language is indeed Urarina, a language isolate spoken in the Loreto region of northwest Peru.
The recording comes from the GRN.