15 thoughts on “Language quiz

  1. On first listening my initial thought is that it is a language of the Indian sub-continent?

  2. Very clearly an Indian language. Not Dravidian.
    Quite conservative as a branch from Sanskrit I’d say…not anything major like Marathi Hindi Gujarati Punjabi or Bengali.

  3. I’m going for the Indian subcontinent too.

    Wilder guess: BBC broadcast in the local language. (Okay, just because I think I heard “Englander” in intro.)

  4. Meitei? northeastern Indian perhaps. sounds rather proper, like a newscast though.

  5. it’s definitely not hindi or urdu, and i’m not particularly familiar with much of other South Asian languages, which it clearly is. Oriya, perhaps? or maybe a Maithili language from Bihar?

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  7. I’m also thinking vaguely of Manipuri. I’m getting some very non-Indian prosodic features so I think of north/northeast India (also related to my Assamese guess).

    Haven’t found any samples of Oriya or Marathi that sound much like it, Assamese is maybe the closest sounding so far…

  8. Could it be Kashmiri? – I’m not that au fait with Indian languages to be honest.

  9. FYI, I think there’s a mis-link. Your ‘Sinhalese’ link to Omniglot goes to Sundanese. My mind was severely bent getting a Polynesian language over to Sri Lanka.

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