Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
5 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
I heard a few sounds that remind me of a Turkic language so I wonder if it isn’t from one of the “Stans” ( one of the former Soviet SSRs in central Asia).
Because of the phonotactics and one or two pharyngeals I have a feeling it could be Afroasiatic, possibly Berber.
I tend to go with Hank in the Turkic/Altaic direction. Maybe Uyghur?
It sounds Turkic to me, but I don’t know what language it can be, since they all have that ‘singsong’ that gives them the vocal harmony and makes it difficult to distinguish them. It even sounds–to me— like the Daur variety of Mongolian languages.
The answer is Shilha (Tašəlḥiyt / ⵜⴰⵛⵍⵃⵉⵢⵜ), a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco and northwestern Algeria.
I heard a few sounds that remind me of a Turkic language so I wonder if it isn’t from one of the “Stans” ( one of the former Soviet SSRs in central Asia).
Because of the phonotactics and one or two pharyngeals I have a feeling it could be Afroasiatic, possibly Berber.
I tend to go with Hank in the Turkic/Altaic direction. Maybe Uyghur?
It sounds Turkic to me, but I don’t know what language it can be, since they all have that ‘singsong’ that gives them the vocal harmony and makes it difficult to distinguish them. It even sounds–to me— like the Daur variety of Mongolian languages.
The answer is Shilha (Tašəlḥiyt / ⵜⴰⵛⵍⵃⵉⵢⵜ), a Berber language spoken in southwestern Morocco and northwestern Algeria.
The recording comes from YouTube: