Do you know or can you guess which language it’s in and where it’s spoken?
12 thoughts on “Language quiz”
It sounds like a a Sino-Tibetan language, or some other tonal language from Southeast Asia, maybe. I’ll put out a guess of Hakka or Gan.
It sounded more like Dravidian to me… Tamil or Telugu?
argh, something south asian, tamil?
Complete unknow to me, but it sounds like native north american…
Here’s a clue – it’s a native North American language.
My first guess is something Inuit-ish. Can’t be more precise though.
I will go with something from the Na-Dene languages; possibly an Athbaskan language? I’ll say Tlingit or Navajo, as they are the “largest” languages of that family. The lack of “hard” fricatives (to my American English ears) – velars, uvulars, glottals – is really throwing me off.
It doesn’t sound Eskimo/Inuit-ish or Navajo-ish to me. How about Cree? The range of consonants seems similar and I heard a ni- prefix, which would correspond to a first-person singular verb form.
Is it Haida?
That was my second guess, SnowLeopard. I was going to go with Cree or Cherokee. The latter is just a guess as I’m just going by the way the language sounded. It didn’t sound as if there was a large consonant inventory or very many fricatives.
The answer is Cree (ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ/Nēhiyawēwin), an Algonquin language spoken in Canada, especially in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The speaker is talking about child rearing.
It sounds like a a Sino-Tibetan language, or some other tonal language from Southeast Asia, maybe. I’ll put out a guess of Hakka or Gan.
It sounded more like Dravidian to me… Tamil or Telugu?
argh, something south asian, tamil?
Complete unknow to me, but it sounds like native north american…
Here’s a clue – it’s a native North American language.
My first guess is something Inuit-ish. Can’t be more precise though.
I will go with something from the Na-Dene languages; possibly an Athbaskan language? I’ll say Tlingit or Navajo, as they are the “largest” languages of that family. The lack of “hard” fricatives (to my American English ears) – velars, uvulars, glottals – is really throwing me off.
It doesn’t sound Eskimo/Inuit-ish or Navajo-ish to me. How about Cree? The range of consonants seems similar and I heard a ni- prefix, which would correspond to a first-person singular verb form.
Is it Haida?
That was my second guess, SnowLeopard. I was going to go with Cree or Cherokee. The latter is just a guess as I’m just going by the way the language sounded. It didn’t sound as if there was a large consonant inventory or very many fricatives.
The answer is Cree (ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ/Nēhiyawēwin), an Algonquin language spoken in Canada, especially in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. The speaker is talking about child rearing.
The recording comes from YouTube.
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