Language quiz
Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess which language it is?
Clue: this is an indigenous language of Central America.
6 Responses to “Language quiz”
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d.m.falk on 06 Jul 2008 at 12:50 am #
It’s a Mayan language, probably Yucatec of K’iche’, my guess.
d.m.f.
Podolsky on 06 Jul 2008 at 6:31 am #
Probably Miskito, spoken in Honduras.
SnowLeopard on 06 Jul 2008 at 2:41 pm #
Zapotec?
michael farris on 06 Jul 2008 at 3:55 pm #
I’m pretty sure it’s Miskito.
Simon on 07 Jul 2008 at 4:51 pm #
The language is indeed Miskito (MÃskitu), a Misumalpan language spoken in parts of Nicaragua and Honduras by about 180,000 people.
The recording comes from Global Recordings.
michael farris on 07 Jul 2008 at 9:42 pm #
I like it when people who guess correctly tell how they did it.
Iguessed Miskito because I heard what sounded like a syllable initial [kr] cluster in something that didn’t sound like a Spanish loan. IIRC Miskito is one of the few native american languages with that kind of initial cluster. After that I went to the wikipedia page and saw that lots of sentences end in na (and the word bukra - that) which I’d heard in the recording.