Do you know or can you guess the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
11 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
Listening to this the first time, while I hear what sounds like clicks, they don’t seem to be what one associates with Khoisan languages. I think it is a North American indigenous language from the Pacific Northwest of the US or the coast of British Columbia in Canada.
Dw i wedi drganfod yr ateb ond bydda i ddim ei datgeli ef nes ymlaen. Os gwelwch yn dda maddeuwch fy ngwallau yn Nghymraeg!
Is the Hank Williams comment above a clue I wonder. I can now hear some odd Welsh words- but maybe it’s just the power of suggestion.
Nope,it’s not a clue. I know that it is preferred by our webmaster that if we discover the right answer, we don’t reveal it TOO early and spoil everyone’s fun (with which I totally agree). Hence, I wrote that in Welsh to Simon so that he’d know but I wasn’t “trumpeting my triumph” too soon! Lol
In that case I have to apologise for my early answer last week, Hank. As I don’t speak Welsh, I’ll have to find another way to let Simon know …
No apology necessary. I was so pleased (and surprised!) that I found the answer that I wanted to let Simon know but I wanted to wait until later in the week to send in my answer. I hope you have the very best of celebrations at this, the diverse festive season for so many people.
Listening to it, I realized that I heard the name that the Klallam themselves give to their language, which is very difficult to pronounce!! So I think it is Klallam, a Salish language. From the first moment he agreed with what Hank have said on day 19.
I want to say : I agree with Hank.
I did find it to be Klallam but didn’t wan to say it too early. I knew it was from the west coast but lucked out as far as finding the clip with it on. I am so seldom right that I was (pleasantly) surprised!
I only reckoned that it is a language from the American NW – because of its phonology – but couldn’t have said anything more than that. Bravi, Hank & David!
The language is Klallam (Nəxʷsƛʼayʼəmúcən), a Salishan language that was spoken in Washington State in the USA and on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, and which is currently being revived.
Listening to this the first time, while I hear what sounds like clicks, they don’t seem to be what one associates with Khoisan languages. I think it is a North American indigenous language from the Pacific Northwest of the US or the coast of British Columbia in Canada.
Dw i wedi drganfod yr ateb ond bydda i ddim ei datgeli ef nes ymlaen. Os gwelwch yn dda maddeuwch fy ngwallau yn Nghymraeg!
Is the Hank Williams comment above a clue I wonder. I can now hear some odd Welsh words- but maybe it’s just the power of suggestion.
Nope,it’s not a clue. I know that it is preferred by our webmaster that if we discover the right answer, we don’t reveal it TOO early and spoil everyone’s fun (with which I totally agree). Hence, I wrote that in Welsh to Simon so that he’d know but I wasn’t “trumpeting my triumph” too soon! Lol
In that case I have to apologise for my early answer last week, Hank. As I don’t speak Welsh, I’ll have to find another way to let Simon know …
No apology necessary. I was so pleased (and surprised!) that I found the answer that I wanted to let Simon know but I wanted to wait until later in the week to send in my answer. I hope you have the very best of celebrations at this, the diverse festive season for so many people.
Listening to it, I realized that I heard the name that the Klallam themselves give to their language, which is very difficult to pronounce!! So I think it is Klallam, a Salish language. From the first moment he agreed with what Hank have said on day 19.
I want to say : I agree with Hank.
I did find it to be Klallam but didn’t wan to say it too early. I knew it was from the west coast but lucked out as far as finding the clip with it on. I am so seldom right that I was (pleasantly) surprised!
I only reckoned that it is a language from the American NW – because of its phonology – but couldn’t have said anything more than that. Bravi, Hank & David!
The language is Klallam (Nəxʷsƛʼayʼəmúcən), a Salishan language that was spoken in Washington State in the USA and on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, and which is currently being revived.
The recording comes from YouTube