Do you know or can you guess the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
7 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
Definitely Polynesian, featuring mostly h instead of s, that narrows it somewhat down … I think it is Tokelauan, specifically Nukunonu (since she mentions that island).
Yes, I think Emanuel is right. Very good Emanuel! Nukunonu atoll is in Tokelau.
I must agree with Emanuel and David. I checked out the name Nukunonu and it is in Tokelau. Good work!
Thanks David and Hank! But giving this a second thought, her last words, as I hear them – ki te henua tenei (‘to this island’) – might not refer to Nukunonu but to another island in the Tokelau group, the one on which she is residing, and then this could be a recording from Atafu or Fakaofo, possibly even Olohenga (Swains I.) in American Samoa (the other islands to which this language is native) … I stick to Tokelauan, though.
The language is Tokelauan (Gagana Tokelau), a Polynesian language spoken in Tokelau and New Zealand.
Definitely Polynesian, featuring mostly h instead of s, that narrows it somewhat down … I think it is Tokelauan, specifically Nukunonu (since she mentions that island).
Yes, I think Emanuel is right. Very good Emanuel! Nukunonu atoll is in Tokelau.
I must agree with Emanuel and David. I checked out the name Nukunonu and it is in Tokelau. Good work!
Thanks David and Hank! But giving this a second thought, her last words, as I hear them – ki te henua tenei (‘to this island’) – might not refer to Nukunonu but to another island in the Tokelau group, the one on which she is residing, and then this could be a recording from Atafu or Fakaofo, possibly even Olohenga (Swains I.) in American Samoa (the other islands to which this language is native) … I stick to Tokelauan, though.
The language is Tokelauan (Gagana Tokelau), a Polynesian language spoken in Tokelau and New Zealand.
The recording comes from YouTube
Link is misdirected
I fixed the link now.