Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
13 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
There being so many I can only guess but I am almost certain that it is a North American indigenous language, possibly from eastern Canada.
It is an indigenous language of North America, but isn’t spoken in Canada.
I think it’s Hinónoʼeitíít. It sounds Algonquian and I heard [θ]
It probably is not from the northwestern US. There aren’t enough consonant clusters.
I heard Finland
It could also be Kikapú or Sawanwa; those both have [θ]
Sounds native American. The word manitou was mentioned (if I heard correctly), which would suggest Algonquian languages.
Apart from Manitou or Manedo, I think I have also heard Napi and other beings from Algonkian mythology; therefore it is an Algonkin language, and if the sound of the Spanish Z / English TH appears, and if it is not Shawnee, it will be Arapaho, Kikapu, or Maiami-Ilini..
I don’t think Myaamia has [θ]
Algonquian language and I say it is Cree.
I would have jumped to something Algonkian, but all those /th/ and /w/ sounds don’t fit. I know it can’t be right, but I’m going to guess that it’s an Algonquin speaking Welsh.
Jonathan,
Maybe it’s Mandan! They were supposed to be Welsh-speaking Indians who might have descended from the landing of Prince Madoc in Mobile Bay in Alabama centuries ago. Who knows?! Lol
The answer is Sauk (Thâkiwâtowêwenia), a dialect of Fox / Meskwaki-Sauk-Kickapoo, an Algonquian language spoken in Iowa, Oklahoma and Kansas in the USA.
There being so many I can only guess but I am almost certain that it is a North American indigenous language, possibly from eastern Canada.
It is an indigenous language of North America, but isn’t spoken in Canada.
I think it’s Hinónoʼeitíít. It sounds Algonquian and I heard [θ]
It probably is not from the northwestern US. There aren’t enough consonant clusters.
I heard Finland
It could also be Kikapú or Sawanwa; those both have [θ]
Sounds native American. The word manitou was mentioned (if I heard correctly), which would suggest Algonquian languages.
Apart from Manitou or Manedo, I think I have also heard Napi and other beings from Algonkian mythology; therefore it is an Algonkin language, and if the sound of the Spanish Z / English TH appears, and if it is not Shawnee, it will be Arapaho, Kikapu, or Maiami-Ilini..
I don’t think Myaamia has [θ]
Algonquian language and I say it is Cree.
I would have jumped to something Algonkian, but all those /th/ and /w/ sounds don’t fit. I know it can’t be right, but I’m going to guess that it’s an Algonquin speaking Welsh.
Jonathan,
Maybe it’s Mandan! They were supposed to be Welsh-speaking Indians who might have descended from the landing of Prince Madoc in Mobile Bay in Alabama centuries ago. Who knows?! Lol
The answer is Sauk (Thâkiwâtowêwenia), a dialect of Fox / Meskwaki-Sauk-Kickapoo, an Algonquian language spoken in Iowa, Oklahoma and Kansas in the USA.
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