Name the language

Here’s a recording in a mystery language.

Do you know or can you guess which language it’s in and where it’s spoken?

Comments (11)

Blinde SchildpadMarch 28th, 2010 at 10:16 am

That’s Papiamento, the creole spoken on the Lesser Antilles.

KateMarch 28th, 2010 at 10:41 am

I was gonna say it sounds little like Portuguese. Damn, you’re good, Blinde!

WillMarch 28th, 2010 at 11:33 am

I understand/recognize most of it as Spanish, but some is a little odd. Maybe a spanish creole? Maybe in the Pacific or the Philippines?

José FigueroaMarch 28th, 2010 at 1:10 pm

It sounds like a mixture of Spanish/Portuguese and Dutch. So I’ll go with Blinde Schildpad’s answer.

renatoMarch 28th, 2010 at 1:14 pm

No doubt, it is Papiamento spoken in Caribean ABC (Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao) specialy in Aruba.

Trond EngenMarch 28th, 2010 at 9:45 pm

Iberian Romance with lots of Dutch names pronounced in Dutch and a few Caribbean references. It must be Papiamento.

Petréa MitchellMarch 28th, 2010 at 10:33 pm

I’m hearing half Spanish, half something unintelligible with lots of reduplication, and a sprinkling of Germanic. I’ve never heard of Papiamento before, but reading up on it just now, that sounds plausible.

d.m.falkMarch 29th, 2010 at 2:25 am

Not gonna challenge this one, since I think everyone’s got it. :) Lots of references to “WWW”, though- Must be something about the internet. :)

d.m.f.

Blinde SchildpadMarch 29th, 2010 at 7:20 am

I would guess this snippet comes from a Papiamento radio station in the Netherlands: the story is about the recent municipal elections in The Hague and the resulting problems in forming a coalition with or without the participation of the PVV (a new right-wing party that seems to think floods, unusual cold spells and the decline of the red squirrel are equally caused by ‘islamisation’).

SimonMarch 29th, 2010 at 8:03 am

The answer is Papiamento (Papiamentu), which is spoken in the Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba).

The recording comes from Radio Nederland Wereldomroep

RodrigoMarch 31st, 2010 at 4:44 pm

It’s Papiamento. “PVV” is pronounced exactly as in Dutch. Mostly Spanish Words, a few Portuguese words. The order of the words seems like a creóle. The only Dutch + Spanish creóle I know: Papiamento :)