Language quiz
Here’s a recording of part of a news report in a mystery language. Any ideas which language it is and where it’s spoken?
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Halabund on 29 Mar 2008 at 8:52 pm #
To me it sounds similar to Japanese, but with many hard Rs. I am sure though that those who actually understand Japanese will strongly disagree about the similarity :)
Chris on 29 Mar 2008 at 8:55 pm #
Sounds kinda like Tadjik, spoken in Tadjikistan and surrounding countries.
xarxa on 29 Mar 2008 at 9:39 pm #
sounds japanesey - either a dialect of that or ainu, the only other language i know of spoken in japan
xarxa on 29 Mar 2008 at 9:40 pm #
ill go with ryuukyuuan, as a random guess
AR on 29 Mar 2008 at 10:52 pm #
i agree with xarxa. it maybe a ryukyuan language such as Okinawan.
d.m.falk on 29 Mar 2008 at 11:06 pm #
Definitely an asiatic language, though not necessarily a Turkic language… I don’t think it’s any of the Ryukyu languages, though, either. My guess is that it could be Mongolian.
d.m.f.
prase on 30 Mar 2008 at 2:13 am #
Albanian.
PP on 30 Mar 2008 at 2:17 am #
Some dravidian language.
Ben on 30 Mar 2008 at 2:22 am #
Heard the θ’s (as featured) so I can assume it’s either Albanian or Turkmen, which would be spoken in Albania and Kosovo, or Turkmenistan.
-Ben
Jeremy on 30 Mar 2008 at 5:51 am #
turkish? some Turkic language? i know it’s definitely not japanese.
Mike on 30 Mar 2008 at 10:21 am #
I’m going to agree with Ben and Jeremy.
michael on 30 Mar 2008 at 12:39 pm #
I didn’t hear a single [θ] in there, what I heard were voiceless laterals. And plenty of uvulars. I am guessing a Caucasian language.
Yaghz on 30 Mar 2008 at 9:07 pm #
I’m gonna go ahead and guess korean or a dialect thereof.
d.m.falk on 30 Mar 2008 at 11:42 pm #
Yaghtz: This is why I went for Mongolian as my guesds. It certainly isn’t Korean, which doesn’t have the hard “r” that can be found in other Mongolic languages. Besides, not once did I hear an “-seo” or “-imnida”, which are common verbal endings. (The latter being similar to the Japanese “desu”- the verb “to be”.)
d.m.f.
Giovanni 'Prestige' on 31 Mar 2008 at 12:25 am #
A Slavonic language?
Simon on 31 Mar 2008 at 10:08 am #
d.m.falk got it - it is , which is spoken in Mongolia, China, Afghanistan and Russia.
You can watch the whole report here.
Aeetlrcreejl on 08 Apr 2008 at 9:46 am #
It sounds super-cool.