Language Quiz 23 July 202322 July 2023 By Simon Here’s a recording in a mystery language. http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz230723.mp3 Do you know or can you guess the language?
There is ‘a touch of India’ in this … but I am in a rather loud restaurant right now, so I’ll have to wait until back home.
The language is Ravula (യേരവാ / ಯೇರವಾ), a Dravidian language spoken in Karnataka and Kerala in southern India The recording comes from YouTube
There is ‘a touch of India’ in this … but I am in a rather loud restaurant right now, so I’ll have to wait until back home.
Sinhal language
I believe it is a language from the subcontinent but I think it is not Indo-European but Dravidian.
Yes, Hank, I wouldn’t say that it sounds Indo-European, including Sinhala, to me.
The language is Ravula (യേരവാ / ಯೇರವಾ), a Dravidian language spoken in Karnataka and Kerala in southern India
The recording comes from YouTube