Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
10 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
Cherokee
I’m going for Cherokee too.
Cherokee. I heard twice a word “Tsalagi”, their endonym for Cherokee.
On hearing the timbre of the voice I immediately thought it is North American Indian and since everyone seems to think it is Cherokee I will have to agree.
I’m Cherokee and I’m learning the language so I immediately recognized it, and I honestly I felt touched and happily surprised that my language was on one of these quizzes
I fail to understand this enthusiasm. To me this sounds like Americans having a guilty conscience about another one of their languages going the way of the dodo, to be frank. Here in the EU (I’m continental, and speak a minority language) the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages is a legally binding agreement. What do you Americans have to guarantee support and protection for your linguistically “diverse”?
I knew it was an North-American Indian language and similar to Iroquois, but I didn’t know which one in particular …Now, we all know.
I know its Cherokee.
The answer is Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ / Tsalagi), a Southern Iroquoian language spoken mainly in North Carolina, Oklahoma and Arkansas in the USA.
Cherokee
I’m going for Cherokee too.
Cherokee. I heard twice a word “Tsalagi”, their endonym for Cherokee.
On hearing the timbre of the voice I immediately thought it is North American Indian and since everyone seems to think it is Cherokee I will have to agree.
I’m Cherokee and I’m learning the language so I immediately recognized it, and I honestly I felt touched and happily surprised that my language was on one of these quizzes
Cherokee!!! (ᏣᎳᎩ, Tsalagi; ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ, Tsalagi Gawonihisdi)
I fail to understand this enthusiasm. To me this sounds like Americans having a guilty conscience about another one of their languages going the way of the dodo, to be frank. Here in the EU (I’m continental, and speak a minority language) the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages is a legally binding agreement. What do you Americans have to guarantee support and protection for your linguistically “diverse”?
I knew it was an North-American Indian language and similar to Iroquois, but I didn’t know which one in particular …Now, we all know.
I know its Cherokee.
The answer is Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ / Tsalagi), a Southern Iroquoian language spoken mainly in North Carolina, Oklahoma and Arkansas in the USA.
The recording comes from YouTube: