Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
7 thoughts on “Language quiz”
There doesn’t seem to be a sound file at “http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz220418.mp3” so neither the player nor the link to a recording in a mystery language works. Is the correct URL “http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz210418.mp3”?
Sorry about that, it works now.
Slavic, most likely West Slavic (or influenced by West Slavic). I’d suppose Lechitic (“ostatnie” for “last, final”). Kashubian, perhaps?
I also hear a West Slavic language but can’t figure out why there are uvular rhotics like a Germanic language. Could it be Upper Sorbian?
I’m going to say “spoken somewhere south of Volgograd, north of Tabriz, and between the seas”.
I would agree that uvular t points to Upper Sorbian.
The language is (Upper) Silesian (ślůnsko godka) – Upper Silesia – Poland and the Czech Republic
There doesn’t seem to be a sound file at “http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz220418.mp3” so neither the player nor the link to a recording in a mystery language works. Is the correct URL “http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz210418.mp3”?
Sorry about that, it works now.
Slavic, most likely West Slavic (or influenced by West Slavic). I’d suppose Lechitic (“ostatnie” for “last, final”). Kashubian, perhaps?
I also hear a West Slavic language but can’t figure out why there are uvular rhotics like a Germanic language. Could it be Upper Sorbian?
I’m going to say “spoken somewhere south of Volgograd, north of Tabriz, and between the seas”.
I would agree that uvular t points to Upper Sorbian.
The language is (Upper) Silesian (ślůnsko godka) – Upper Silesia – Poland and the Czech Republic
The recording comes from YouTube: