Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
8 thoughts on “Language quiz”
It sounds a little like an Iranian language but I am far from sure.
About halfway through it starts sounding Turkish to me. So, could it be a Kurdish dialect, maybe Kurmandji spoken in Southeastern Turkey.
Rather Iranian than Turkic. I think I have heard خدا (xodâ, god), which would make sense since these quiz recordings are more often religious than not.
Oops, reading his comment again I realise that Daydreamer hasn’t suggested Turkic after all.
Iranian is sort on the right lines – this language is spoken in parts of Pakistan.
I recall we had Baluchi before on one of the quizzes either last year or earlier this year.
So, I’d say this is Pashto. (It’s the only other Indo-Iranian language of Pakistan besides Baluchi that I can think of)
I thought I heard the Urdu word magar in there, so between that and the phonemic inventory I figured it was something from Pakistan or Afghanistan. What does Burushaski sound like?
The answer is Shina (شینا), a member of the Dardic branch of the Indo-Aryan language family spoken in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan.
It sounds a little like an Iranian language but I am far from sure.
About halfway through it starts sounding Turkish to me. So, could it be a Kurdish dialect, maybe Kurmandji spoken in Southeastern Turkey.
Rather Iranian than Turkic. I think I have heard خدا (xodâ, god), which would make sense since these quiz recordings are more often religious than not.
Oops, reading his comment again I realise that Daydreamer hasn’t suggested Turkic after all.
Iranian is sort on the right lines – this language is spoken in parts of Pakistan.
I recall we had Baluchi before on one of the quizzes either last year or earlier this year.
So, I’d say this is Pashto. (It’s the only other Indo-Iranian language of Pakistan besides Baluchi that I can think of)
I thought I heard the Urdu word magar in there, so between that and the phonemic inventory I figured it was something from Pakistan or Afghanistan. What does Burushaski sound like?
The answer is Shina (شینا), a member of the Dardic branch of the Indo-Aryan language family spoken in the Gilgit–Baltistan region of Pakistan.
The recording comes from the GRN.