Language quiz
Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess which language it is and where it’s spoken?
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Podolsky on 18 Nov 2007 at 7:06 pm #
A German dialect.
ekill on 18 Nov 2007 at 7:51 pm #
Perhaps the Bavarian one?
Colin on 18 Nov 2007 at 8:14 pm #
I admit my German is rusty, but it sounds just slightly too far off to be a dialectal difference. I’m guessing I’m wrong and it’ll turn out to be German anyway, but I’m going with Frisian.
Jerry on 18 Nov 2007 at 9:12 pm #
Definitely not Frisian. Something German, certainly. Something Plattduutsch, an eastern dialect probably.
Jonathan Katz on 18 Nov 2007 at 9:40 pm #
Maybe Danish, spoken in Denmark, Germany, and Greenland?
Anders on 18 Nov 2007 at 10:05 pm #
It’s German for sure. But what dialect….He says ‘grot’ instead of ‘gross’, I think. That means it’s a northern dialect.
Alan Coady on 18 Nov 2007 at 11:03 pm #
I don’t know German, but the “tunes” sound Germanic - especially towards the end of the recording.
prase on 18 Nov 2007 at 11:37 pm #
Luxembourgish.
BG on 19 Nov 2007 at 5:58 am #
(Without looking) It sounds like a dialect/language of Germany. Vielleicht Bayrisch?
d.m.falk on 19 Nov 2007 at 10:29 am #
My first thought here was Swiss German. It’s DEFINITELY a German dialect.
d.m.f.
Voytec on 19 Nov 2007 at 1:22 pm #
My bet goes for Plattdüütsch.
Simon on 19 Nov 2007 at 5:48 pm #
BG & ekill got it - it is Bavarian (Bayerisch) and the recording comes from YouTube.
Even though I don’t understand much of the video, I get the joke. It’s probably funnier if you understand the Bayerisch.
Siäch on 19 Nov 2007 at 9:01 pm #
It’s a mock about a TV campaign against illiteracy. If you know that, the joke is much funnier.
BG on 20 Nov 2007 at 3:41 am #
Yeah! Bavaria is the only part of Germany I’ve been to so that’s what I guessed. It did sound somehat familiar though.