Do you know or can you guess which language it’s in and where it’s spoken?
12 thoughts on “Name the language”
A Native American language? Maybe a central or south Asian language?
I realize this covers a lot of bases, but to me it sounds simultaneously as a Bantu/Arabic hybrid (like Swahili or a Sahel language) and a Malay-related language.
a language from the horn of africa, amharic, tigre, something like that
I think it is Hausa, based on googling for fragments that I tried to spell out.
I found the word “amarka” in an article about Somaliland. So, Somali?
Closest I can get is Africa.
dmh, however, if you spell it ‘Amurka’, Google will serve up a pile of Hausa pages, many of them radio stations. Apparently it was not only I for whom this was the most noticeable word in the recoding. Ironically, ‘Amurka’ is not even a true Hausa word: it simply means ‘America’.
After some initial indecision, my guess was Hausa, so I’ll stick with that.
Ainu
The language is Hausa (حَوْسَ), which is spoken mainly in Nigeria and Niger.
The only thing i got out of it was ‘something arabic’ (sorry, i’m no linguist) AND a sort of weird German ring to it. I felt sort of proud when i read the fragment came from deutsche welle!
At first thought something slavic (talking about Barack Obama), but then there were some glottal stops, so not quite sure …
A Native American language? Maybe a central or south Asian language?
I realize this covers a lot of bases, but to me it sounds simultaneously as a Bantu/Arabic hybrid (like Swahili or a Sahel language) and a Malay-related language.
a language from the horn of africa, amharic, tigre, something like that
I think it is Hausa, based on googling for fragments that I tried to spell out.
I found the word “amarka” in an article about Somaliland. So, Somali?
Closest I can get is Africa.
dmh, however, if you spell it ‘Amurka’, Google will serve up a pile of Hausa pages, many of them radio stations. Apparently it was not only I for whom this was the most noticeable word in the recoding. Ironically, ‘Amurka’ is not even a true Hausa word: it simply means ‘America’.
After some initial indecision, my guess was Hausa, so I’ll stick with that.
Ainu
The language is Hausa (حَوْسَ), which is spoken mainly in Nigeria and Niger.
The recording comes from Deutsche Welle.
The only thing i got out of it was ‘something arabic’ (sorry, i’m no linguist) AND a sort of weird German ring to it. I felt sort of proud when i read the fragment came from deutsche welle!
At first thought something slavic (talking about Barack Obama), but then there were some glottal stops, so not quite sure …