Language quiz
Here is today’s mystery language. Does it sound at all familiar?
The audio file is quite large, so will probably be a bit slow to download.
June 17th, 2007 in
Language, Quiz questions
Here is today’s mystery language. Does it sound at all familiar?
The audio file is quite large, so will probably be a bit slow to download.
It’s obviously a Slavonic language and belongs probably to its Southern branch. Slovene?
Is it Croatian?
My guess is Slovene, too — I think I heard a modified “Ljubljana”.
I think it is a Sorbian language: I heard something like “Chośebuzu” (Cottbus) and a German word about the 22nd second. Also I heard something like uvular R which can be a German influence.
Simon has asked me to tell the answer if he has not been able to today. The answer is Lower Sorbian. It is part of the west-slavic subgroup and has about 55000 speakers in Upper and Lower Lusatia in the German Länder of Saxony and Brandenburg.
Aw, I missed out on account of my timezone!
I was thinking something Southern Slavonic, I’d never have guessed Sorbian, certainly. The prevalent /s/ versus the relatively infrequent /š/ and so on, (mis)lead me away from Western Slavonic languages.