Language quiz

Here’s a recording of a news bulletin in a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess which language it is?

Comments (10)

dmhSeptember 1st, 2007 at 9:10 pm

Well at the end it sounds like it says Iran which leads to Persian. But the rest doesn’t exactly sound like Persian and Persian was already a quiz so maybe Dari? or Tajik? My only other guess would be an Arabic dialect.

Jonathan KSeptember 1st, 2007 at 9:51 pm

I’m guessing Albanian-there’s a voiceless dental fricative (th as in thin), which Persian doesn’t have.

PodolskySeptember 2nd, 2007 at 6:12 am

It is Neo-Aramaic, evidently Turoyo, originally from Tur-Abdin in South Turkey, now mainly in Sweden.

TJqSeptember 2nd, 2007 at 9:59 am

yes, I agree, it is sort of Aramaic (maybe Assyrian).

SimonSeptember 2nd, 2007 at 5:02 pm

The language is indeed Aramaic and the recording comes from Radio Sweden International.

IDKSeptember 18th, 2007 at 3:06 am

捷克是不是一個bilingual country?
他們的人是不是能同時說德語和捷克語?
謝謝

SimonSeptember 18th, 2007 at 9:43 am

IDK – 在捷克年輕人大概會講至少一點英語和/或德語。年紀更大的人會講俄語和/或德語,也會聼得懂斯洛伐克語和波蘭語。

LundySeptember 18th, 2007 at 5:58 pm

Ich auch.

IDKSeptember 19th, 2007 at 10:21 am

捷克年輕人大概會講至少一點英語和/或德語的程度大概是怎麼樣子?
是像台灣大部份人同時會說國語和台語一樣普遍嗎?
謝謝

SimonSeptember 19th, 2007 at 7:38 pm

大部分我在捷克踫到的人都會至少一點英語,有的人會講得很好。跟台灣不一樣-他們的母語是捷克語,然後他們在學校學英語或德語。