Language quiz
Here’s a recording in a mystery language.
Do you know or can you guess which language it’s in and where it’s spoken?
May 17th, 2009 in
Language, Quiz questions
Here’s a recording in a mystery language.
Do you know or can you guess which language it’s in and where it’s spoken?
Tatar?
azeri?
I heard “Türkiye’de” but it is obviously not Turkish from Turkey. And then I also heard “Tatarstan” with a back, rounded sound for the first a, and then “Tatar-” again towards the end. That’s seems to be how Tatars pronounce it, so I’ll go with Tatar, too.
Ok, this is kind of hard – but I would say turkish – the ‘l’ and ‘r’ sounds sound kind of slavic, but then there is middle eastern music in the background and there is somewhat of a glottal sound also.
This is my closest guess :)
Tartar or Bashkir?
Tatar
Any possibility for Uyghur?
Azeri.
Turkik but definitely not Turkish. I’ll throw out Kazakh as a wild guess.
The general “feel” and uvular consonants made me think something from the Caucasus/Caspian region. Azeri works for me.
The language is Tatar (татарча), which is spoken mainly in the Russian republic of Tatarstan.
The recording comes from Radio Free Europe