Language quiz
Here is a recording of a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess which language it is and where it’s spoken.
Clue: it sounds like a language that’s probably familiar, but isn’t that language.
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yuni hallden on 24 Nov 2007 at 4:17 pm #
hello - sounds like - from the alps
Voytec on 24 Nov 2007 at 5:01 pm #
I am guessing - Franco-Provençal?
Colin on 24 Nov 2007 at 5:58 pm #
I don’t think it’s Franco-Provençal, unless Franco-Provençal is really, really different from Occitan, and my understanding was that they are fairly close (although distinct). Romansh maybe?
jake on 24 Nov 2007 at 6:15 pm #
Sounds similar to French (duh). Other than that I don’t know.
Probably a dialect southeast of france.
Kyle on 24 Nov 2007 at 6:33 pm #
I’m guessing more northward, one of the versions of langue d’oil. Picard?
Mike on 24 Nov 2007 at 7:30 pm #
I’m going to guess and say Jèrriais or Walloon.
James on 24 Nov 2007 at 10:46 pm #
Lots of french sounds, but I´d guess some kind of pidgin or creole as I can´t understand it.
h. on 24 Nov 2007 at 11:27 pm #
Gallo?… spoken in Brittany. probably a langue d’oil
Matt on 25 Nov 2007 at 1:16 am #
Language: Wallon (Walon)
Spoken in: Wallonia (Belgium), France and the U.S.A.
Speakers: about 600,000
Info from wikipedia
Matt on 25 Nov 2007 at 1:16 am #
correction: its Walloon
sorry! :D
d.m.falk on 25 Nov 2007 at 4:36 am #
I’d say it’s either Norman, Guernésiais or Jèrriais. I don’t think it’s Wallon, though.
d.m.f.
Jehudá on 25 Nov 2007 at 9:18 am #
I heard ‘Brezhoneg’ at 0:09, so I guess it is it, Breton.
Simon on 25 Nov 2007 at 11:30 am #
Jehudá got it - it is Breton (Brezhong), which is spoken in Brittany by about 365,000 people. The recording comes from YouTube and the clip includes French subtitles
I thought it was French when I first heard it (hence the clue), but realised it wasn’t when I listened more closely.
BG on 26 Nov 2007 at 6:00 am #
Darn it, I was thinking it was Celtic but didn’t write anything because I wasn’t very sure and then everybody else thought Romance. Breton is spoken pretty close to where people guessed, though.
Seumas on 26 Nov 2007 at 1:37 pm #
I never realised Breton was spoken with a French accent… I found that clip confusing, and I speak Gaelic and French!!!
I was in Luxembourg in September - their language is confusing to the ear too. It is Germanic, but its accent is very French.