Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
9 thoughts on “Language quiz”
I will stick my neck out and guess this is from Africa and possibly from Sudan or South Sudan.
Roger’s window is a good one to lean out wide: I think it is Massai spoken in Kenya.
I immediately thought Philippine language when I heard the recording, but now seeing the other guesses I’m not so confident! I have very little knowledge of the area, but definitely think I recognise some words from working briefly with Cebuano. I don’t think it is Cebuano, however, but a related language. Will be interested to find out what it is.
I thin kI hear an /ft/ cluster, which would rule out Maasai/
Maybe Moré from Burkina Faso!!!
It’s very definitely a Philippine language – close to Tagalog (I can understand bits of it) but not quite. I’m thinking Bikol but it may be a Visayan dialect.
I think it is Asian too … something close to the Philippines. I compare it to how Filippino population here speaks. I don’t understand though of course.
The answer is Hanunó’o, a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Mindoro in the Philippines.
It was obviously a Central Philippine language, but which one I had no way of knowing. Obviously I didn’t have enough time to absorb much of the language, even though I was in the Hanuno’o area briefly and have Hanuno’o friends! Translation of the Lord’s Prayer quite likely due to Antoon Postma, the former missionary priest, who I had the pleasure of visiting at his home in Panaytayan (Hanuno’o village) two and a half years ago.
I will stick my neck out and guess this is from Africa and possibly from Sudan or South Sudan.
Roger’s window is a good one to lean out wide: I think it is Massai spoken in Kenya.
I immediately thought Philippine language when I heard the recording, but now seeing the other guesses I’m not so confident! I have very little knowledge of the area, but definitely think I recognise some words from working briefly with Cebuano. I don’t think it is Cebuano, however, but a related language. Will be interested to find out what it is.
I thin kI hear an /ft/ cluster, which would rule out Maasai/
Maybe Moré from Burkina Faso!!!
It’s very definitely a Philippine language – close to Tagalog (I can understand bits of it) but not quite. I’m thinking Bikol but it may be a Visayan dialect.
I think it is Asian too … something close to the Philippines. I compare it to how Filippino population here speaks. I don’t understand though of course.
The answer is Hanunó’o, a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Mindoro in the Philippines.
The recording comes from the GRN.
It was obviously a Central Philippine language, but which one I had no way of knowing. Obviously I didn’t have enough time to absorb much of the language, even though I was in the Hanuno’o area briefly and have Hanuno’o friends! Translation of the Lord’s Prayer quite likely due to Antoon Postma, the former missionary priest, who I had the pleasure of visiting at his home in Panaytayan (Hanuno’o village) two and a half years ago.