Language quiz
Here’s a recording of part of song in a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess what language it’s in and where it’s spoken?
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tazgo on 24 Feb 2008 at 3:24 pm #
Sounds like Spanish, but i’m guessing that would be too easy…
The music sounds kinda Caribbean-ish… could it be Papiamento? spoken in Curacao if I remember correctly.
tazgo on 24 Feb 2008 at 3:25 pm #
Love the site, by the way!! :)
Alan Coady on 24 Feb 2008 at 3:41 pm #
A wild shot in the dark - Yoruba.
harris on 24 Feb 2008 at 6:36 pm #
definately very carribean sounding… portuguese?
renato figueiredo on 24 Feb 2008 at 8:34 pm #
It is a creole Spanish base language, it can be Caribbean or SouthEast Asiatic
Javier on 24 Feb 2008 at 11:47 pm #
I asked my mother (she’s fluent in spanish) and she said she thinks it’s what they speak in Brazil (Portuguese). So, I’m going with that.
Daydreamer on 25 Feb 2008 at 12:46 am #
Since the Spanish phrases “mi corazón” and “mi amor” can be identified in the recording, I’d go with tazgo and say it’s Papiamento. But then, the Dutch influence of that language is missing.
Alternatively could it be Garifuna, spoken mainly in Honduras? The people down there are reported to play some exciting music, too.
Chris on 25 Feb 2008 at 3:19 am #
I think it might be Media Lengua, a Spanish-Quechua mixed language spoken in Ecuador.
vautour on 25 Feb 2008 at 9:48 am #
Papiamentu.
Simon on 25 Feb 2008 at 4:21 pm #
It is indeed Papiamento, a creole language spoken in the Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba). The song comes from YouTube.
BG on 26 Feb 2008 at 6:12 am #
So it’s the sample text in Papiamento.