Language quiz
Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess which language it is and where it’s spoken?
November 18th, 2007 in
Language, Quiz questions
Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess which language it is and where it’s spoken?
A German dialect.
Perhaps the Bavarian one?
I admit my German is rusty, but it sounds just slightly too far off to be a dialectal difference. I’m guessing I’m wrong and it’ll turn out to be German anyway, but I’m going with Frisian.
Definitely not Frisian. Something German, certainly. Something Plattduutsch, an eastern dialect probably.
Maybe Danish, spoken in Denmark, Germany, and Greenland?
It’s German for sure. But what dialect….He says ‘grot’ instead of ‘gross’, I think. That means it’s a northern dialect.
I don’t know German, but the “tunes” sound Germanic – especially towards the end of the recording.
Luxembourgish.
(Without looking) It sounds like a dialect/language of Germany. Vielleicht Bayrisch?
My first thought here was Swiss German. It’s DEFINITELY a German dialect.
d.m.f.
My bet goes for Plattdüütsch.
BG & ekill got it – it is Bavarian (Bayerisch) and the recording comes from YouTube.
Even though I don’t understand much of the video, I get the joke. It’s probably funnier if you understand the Bayerisch.
It’s a mock about a TV campaign against illiteracy. If you know that, the joke is much funnier.
Yeah! Bavaria is the only part of Germany I’ve been to so that’s what I guessed. It did sound somehat familiar though.