Do you know or can you guess which language it’s in and where it’s spoken?
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What I noticed is what seems to be an English accent (and the English phrase “of course”), plus many references to Australia. So I suppose it’s a native Australian language spoken by a non-native speaker.
Maltese ?
Definitely Maltese. English and Italian loanwords on an Arabic substrate (ħ is all over the place, even if you don’t know Arabic).
Baluchi?
my guess .- maori
Maltese, abso-defi-lutely, but spoken with a strong second-language accent. My guess: a second-generation Australian or at least someone who grew up speaking Australian English as her first or usual language and Maltese as a subordinate family language. I could understand about half of it, so close it is in sound to Lebanese. Words like kien ‘was’, li ‘who/that’, magħhom ‘with them’, is-sana l-oħra ‘the other (second?) year’, qalu(lu) [ʔalu(lu)] ‘they said (to him)’ and of course Inglis, Malti and Għawdex [‘awdeʃ]: ‘English, Maltese, Gozo Island’. Then there are the Italian or Sicilian loans familja and kompletament. She’s telling a story about a (her?) family going to the High Commission of (ta’) “l-Awstralija” where someone before they came (ġu [ʤu]) to Australia. Not sure, but it sounds toward the middle like she’s talking about a “boyfriend Malti li qalulu (who they spoke to) bl-Inglis (in English), of course”.
My first thought was ‘Ivrieth with English accent. But after reading the comments of Alex, Lucas and Christopher they confinced me about Maltese.
It sounded strangely like a weird Romance language with all the words ending in vowels, but after the comments, I can see that it could be Maltese, but my first guess was an aboriginal language spoken by a non-native, but even that was a stretch because I heard too many gutturals to be Pomo-Nyungan
I have guessed Maltese, too.
The language is Maltese (Malti) which is spoken in mainly in Malta.
What I noticed is what seems to be an English accent (and the English phrase “of course”), plus many references to Australia. So I suppose it’s a native Australian language spoken by a non-native speaker.
Maltese ?
Definitely Maltese. English and Italian loanwords on an Arabic substrate (ħ is all over the place, even if you don’t know Arabic).
Baluchi?
my guess .- maori
Maltese, abso-defi-lutely, but spoken with a strong second-language accent. My guess: a second-generation Australian or at least someone who grew up speaking Australian English as her first or usual language and Maltese as a subordinate family language. I could understand about half of it, so close it is in sound to Lebanese. Words like kien ‘was’, li ‘who/that’, magħhom ‘with them’, is-sana l-oħra ‘the other (second?) year’, qalu(lu) [ʔalu(lu)] ‘they said (to him)’ and of course Inglis, Malti and Għawdex [‘awdeʃ]: ‘English, Maltese, Gozo Island’. Then there are the Italian or Sicilian loans familja and kompletament. She’s telling a story about a (her?) family going to the High Commission of (ta’) “l-Awstralija” where someone before they came (ġu [ʤu]) to Australia. Not sure, but it sounds toward the middle like she’s talking about a “boyfriend Malti li qalulu (who they spoke to) bl-Inglis (in English), of course”.
My first thought was ‘Ivrieth with English accent. But after reading the comments of Alex, Lucas and Christopher they confinced me about Maltese.
It sounded strangely like a weird Romance language with all the words ending in vowels, but after the comments, I can see that it could be Maltese, but my first guess was an aboriginal language spoken by a non-native, but even that was a stretch because I heard too many gutturals to be Pomo-Nyungan
I have guessed Maltese, too.
The language is Maltese (Malti) which is spoken in mainly in Malta.
The recording comes from SBS Radio (Australia).