Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
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I am only guessing its either Polynesian or Micronesian because I keep thinking I hear the word Matua which I think is a form of the word for God. For some reason I thought that it was the word “God” in Fijian. I know that God is “Otua” in Tongan. That’s the closest I am goiing to be able to come!
Are we in Melanesia?
No, Polynesia.
I checked out the Polynesian languages under language families and the closest I could come to finding anything that souded like the recording is Takuu.
I know this is Polynesian, but I don’t know what language. Some lack “r”, and not “l” like Hawaiian, but those “rr’s” pronounced like the Spanish r … I don’t know! Perhaps it’s the speaker’s pronounciation, marking hardly those r’s.
The answer is Mele-Fila (Ifira-Mele), a Polyneisan language spoken in the islands of Efate and Fila in Vanuatu.
I am only guessing its either Polynesian or Micronesian because I keep thinking I hear the word Matua which I think is a form of the word for God. For some reason I thought that it was the word “God” in Fijian. I know that God is “Otua” in Tongan. That’s the closest I am goiing to be able to come!
Are we in Melanesia?
No, Polynesia.
I checked out the Polynesian languages under language families and the closest I could come to finding anything that souded like the recording is Takuu.
I know this is Polynesian, but I don’t know what language. Some lack “r”, and not “l” like Hawaiian, but those “rr’s” pronounced like the Spanish r … I don’t know! Perhaps it’s the speaker’s pronounciation, marking hardly those r’s.
The answer is Mele-Fila (Ifira-Mele), a Polyneisan language spoken in the islands of Efate and Fila in Vanuatu.
The recording comes from YouTube:
It may be a Polynesian language, but Vanuatu is definitely in Melanesia.