Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
5 thoughts on “Language quiz”
IMO the singing style is characteristic of male choirs in the Western Caucasus region. So, I’m pointing at Georgian or its siblings Mingrelian, Laz and Svan.
My first thoughts as well.
I also was thinking of the Caucasus like the commenters before me, based entirely off the vocal style rather than the language. Unfortunately I can’t hear anything recognizable enough in the speech sounds themselves – not even the ejectives I would expect from the region. (So, maybe even the region is wrong?)
It is a North West Caucasian language, not a Southern Caucasian one.
The language is Abaza (абаза бызшва), a North West Caucasian language spoken mainly in the Russian autonomous republics of Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygea.
IMO the singing style is characteristic of male choirs in the Western Caucasus region. So, I’m pointing at Georgian or its siblings Mingrelian, Laz and Svan.
My first thoughts as well.
I also was thinking of the Caucasus like the commenters before me, based entirely off the vocal style rather than the language. Unfortunately I can’t hear anything recognizable enough in the speech sounds themselves – not even the ejectives I would expect from the region. (So, maybe even the region is wrong?)
It is a North West Caucasian language, not a Southern Caucasian one.
The language is Abaza (абаза бызшва), a North West Caucasian language spoken mainly in the Russian autonomous republics of Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygea.
The recording comes from YouTube.