Name the language

Today we have a recording of a news bulletin from an online radio station for you to identify.

Like yesterday’s recording, this one comes from Radio Free Europe.

December 3rd, 2006 in Language, Quiz questions

Comments (9)

ARDecember 3rd, 2006 at 5:38 pm

It is definitely Farsi or Dari (or some other Persian language).

lasloDecember 3rd, 2006 at 7:15 pm

It’s sounds sort of like a mix between a Persian language and a Turkic language… I’m going to guess Tajik (I think I heard Dushanbe in the recording.)

PodolskyDecember 3rd, 2006 at 8:41 pm

I also think it is Tajik.

DMHDecember 3rd, 2006 at 10:09 pm

I thought it sounded kinda like French. Although I know it’s not French, it still sounds kinda close.

SimonDecember 4th, 2006 at 3:48 pm

The answer is … Persian/Farsi.

Joseph StaleknightDecember 5th, 2006 at 2:13 am

I can see how this could be confused with French.

Evans KnightDecember 5th, 2006 at 7:22 am

FARSI!!

JoshDecember 5th, 2006 at 6:10 pm

That didn’t sound much like french to me…

DMHDecember 5th, 2006 at 10:30 pm

Yeah, this clip sounds like French, I know it’s not b/c I have a fairly good level, but to me it still sounds similar. I actually started learning some Persian last week, but this clip sounded nothing like what I’ve heard so far though. Of course, that would just be the first few lessons of Assimil… mard ab dad ;) :):):)