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Language quiz

Simon on 15 Jul 2007

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5 Responses to “Language quiz”

1. Joseph Staleknight on 16 Jul 2007 at 1:36 am #

   Sounds Tamil…

2. Matt on 16 Jul 2007 at 2:59 am #

   That is Sinhalese/Sinhala (සිංහල) spoken in Sri Lanka by about 16,000,000 people.
   I think the dialogue is from http://www.speaksinhala.com/

3. Podolsky on 16 Jul 2007 at 5:15 am #

   I think Tamil.

4. Simon on 16 Jul 2007 at 2:22 pm #

   Matt is right - the language is Sinhala/Sinhalese, which is spoken mainly in Sri Lanka, and the recording does come from Let’s Speak Sinhala.

5. AR on 16 Jul 2007 at 4:28 pm #

   Well Sinhala is most greatly influenced by Tamil. It even lost the distinction between aspirated and unaspirated sounds. Also, it has inherited the destinction between short and long e and o which is not found in any other Indo-Aryan language (save for Divehi, Sinhala’s closest relative).