Do you know or can you guess the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
5 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
I think it is Micronesian, perhaps Kiribati?
It sounds like a typical Polynesian language to me and it’s Nukuria. Spoken in an area of New Guinea called Nuguria.
Yes, it’s a Polynesian language, but one from outside the Polynesian triangle, I think. So Nukuria is a possibility. The person speaks repeatedly about “this boat” (the vaka nei) …
I meant ‘te vaka nei’, of course, and it is indeed Nukuria.
The language is indeed Nukuria, a Polynesian language spoken in the Nugria Islands of Papua New Guinea.
I think it is Micronesian, perhaps Kiribati?
It sounds like a typical Polynesian language to me and it’s Nukuria. Spoken in an area of New Guinea called Nuguria.
Yes, it’s a Polynesian language, but one from outside the Polynesian triangle, I think. So Nukuria is a possibility. The person speaks repeatedly about “this boat” (the vaka nei) …
I meant ‘te vaka nei’, of course, and it is indeed Nukuria.
The language is indeed Nukuria, a Polynesian language spoken in the Nugria Islands of Papua New Guinea.
The recording comes from YouTube: