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Language quiz

Simon on 19 Jul 2008

Language and Quiz questions | Comments (10)

10 Responses to “Language quiz”

1. Greg on 19 Jul 2008 at 5:57 pm #

   I would guess that it’s Kurdish, mostly spoken in Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. Could be another Iranic language however; such as Dari, Tajik, Pashto or even something more obscure like Luri.

2. AR on 19 Jul 2008 at 7:51 pm #

   Ossetian?

3. Polly on 19 Jul 2008 at 8:49 pm #

   Kurdish?

4. Ben on 19 Jul 2008 at 10:16 pm #

   I’m gonna go one further and say it’s Sorani Kurdish.

5. Podolsky on 20 Jul 2008 at 8:32 am #

   Circassian.

6. Adam on 20 Jul 2008 at 4:22 pm #

   Dwi’n credu Manaweg mae rhyw flas Gwyddelig arno fe rhyw sut, A’i iaith Goidel yw e neu beth?

   Manx?

7. Simon on 20 Jul 2008 at 8:10 pm #

   Adam - nid iaith Celtaidd ydy hi.

   AR got it -the language is indeed Ossetianian (ирон æвзаг / дигорон æвзаг), an Iranian langauge spoken mainly in Ossetia, a region that is partly in Russia and partly in Georgia.

   The recording is of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and was made by Taymuraz Zaseev.

   Here’s the Ossetian text:
   Адӕймӕгтӕ се ‘ппӕт дӕр райгуырынц сӕрибарӕй ӕмӕ ӕмхуызонӕй сӕ барты. Уыдон ӕххӕст сты зонд ӕмӕ намысӕй, ӕмӕ кӕрӕдзийӕн хъуамӕ уой ӕфсымӕрты хуызӕн.

8. pavel on 20 Jul 2008 at 11:49 pm #

   Taymuraz Zaseev was in the “artist name” tag…

9. garance on 21 Jul 2008 at 2:23 pm #

   Well done guys! I was off by a thousand miles! I remember reading that persian was the most beautiful language on earth, I think that it was in the memoirs of the pirate Trelawney, who was a friend of Shelley.

10. Скеч on 06 Sep 2008 at 12:12 pm #

    Очень забавные мысли, хорошо рассказано, все просто таки разложено по полкам :)

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