Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
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Five vowel system, apparent vowel harmony. Not many unusual phonemes, but there are /t͡s/ and /ⁿd/.. Few to no consonant clusters, and the only final consonants I heard are nasals and /s/.
There seem to be a lot of final glottal stops, Daniel.
I did think I might have heard those, ut I wasn’t ure.
This time my shot in the dark is
a malayo-polynesian language spoken in Indonesia.
Daydreamer – you’ve got the right language family and the right country. The answer is Sasak, a Malayo-Sumbawan language spoken in West Nusa Tenggara province in Lombok in Indonesia
Five vowel system, apparent vowel harmony. Not many unusual phonemes, but there are /t͡s/ and /ⁿd/.. Few to no consonant clusters, and the only final consonants I heard are nasals and /s/.
There seem to be a lot of final glottal stops, Daniel.
I did think I might have heard those, ut I wasn’t ure.
This time my shot in the dark is
a malayo-polynesian language spoken in Indonesia.
Daydreamer – you’ve got the right language family and the right country. The answer is Sasak, a Malayo-Sumbawan language spoken in West Nusa Tenggara province in Lombok in Indonesia
The recording comes from the GRN.