7 thoughts on “Language quiz

  1. Something from the Amazon, perhaps? Though it doesn’t quite sound like a Yanomaman language to me…

  2. Hmmm, I’m native to California and I don’t recognize it. ;–}

    But I’m going to put a small bet down on Tongva/Gabrileno because that’s the language that had been spoken where I grew up.

  3. Awesome, I’m also native to the Gabrielino/Tongva-speaking region! But sadly that language ceased to be spoken after around 1900, so I don’t think it’s that. (And this doesn’t sound like a speaker of the newly-revived version of Tongva.)

    As I listen more and more, I think I might hear some (not-so-extreme) glottalized consonants and uvular consonants. Also, there are a couple examples of an r-like sound at least near the beginning. And as it’s from California, that combination of features narrows things down to a few Northern Californian languages – my guess is it’s one of the Pomo languages of Sonoma? Maybe Kashaya?

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