Language quiz

Here’s a recording of a mystery language. Can you guess or do you know which language it is, and where it’s spoken?

Clue: this language was is occasionally written with the Arabic script.

October 7th, 2007 in Language, Quiz questions

Comments (7)

Harris EngelmannOctober 7th, 2007 at 5:48 pm

Somali?

Thomas (babelhut.com)October 7th, 2007 at 6:21 pm

no idea. Malay?

DanielOctober 7th, 2007 at 7:35 pm

¿javanese?

DaydreamerOctober 7th, 2007 at 10:00 pm

How about Haussa in Northern Nigeria?

AeetlrcreejlOctober 7th, 2007 at 10:18 pm

It’s not Hausa, I heard a velar nasal.

It’s definitely Malay or something similar.

TJOctober 8th, 2007 at 12:23 am

I agree it is some where in far east …. maybe Malay, or Indonesian.

SimonOctober 8th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

Interesting guesses. It’s in fact Hausa, which is spoken mainly in northern Nigeria and Niger by about 39 million people. The recording comes from Deutsche Welle.