18 thoughts on “Language quiz

  1. Sounds like Lithuanian with the consonant clusters, rising tone accents, and the -a, -as, -is endings. And do I hear škuola/s, which I guess probably means school, several times?

  2. I would say something in the Baltic area. I am not set on Lithuanian, but the only other living language is Latvian, so I don’t know.

    I will just say something spoken in the Baltic area, and probably Indo-European.

  3. I can catch a few Slavic sounding words – odnako, vreme – and some of the structure seems vaguely Slavic, but I can’t hear it well enough to make out more. Something geographically closer to Poland/Polish (but not Polish itself). I wouldn’t be surprised to hear it’s a nearby non-Slavic language though.

  4. To my untrained ears, it sounded similar to Spanish. Then again, I think Portuguese sounds a lot like Russian, so it could easily be something from Eastern Europe as well.

  5. It sounds like it should be Indoeuropean but I can’t pick up anything to hang that moniker on, so to speak. Not a clue

  6. Well, this is getting interestinger and interestinger…

    To my ears, it sounds very much like Lithuanian, with distortions that sound to me like the speech of a quite old person.

    If it’s Turkic, then it certainly doesn’t sound to me like a typical southwestern or central Asian Turkic language. Which leaves me to guess at either Yakut/Sakha or one of the Volga Turkic languages: Chuvash or Bashkir, perhaps?

  7. It’s definitely Sayan Turkic, not, e.g., Sakha. I can’t make out much at all, but it’s something to do with a ‘story’ (тоол) and ‘storytelling’ (тоолда-), though I don’t think she’s actually telling a story in the clip itself.

  8. Sounds somewhat Mongolic to me, so I’d go for something nearer to Mongolia. Tuvan or perhaps Altai? Or less likely Khakhas…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *