Language quiz

Here’s a recording of a mystery language. Can you guess or do you know which language it is? Or at least which language family it belongs to.

Comments (7)

h.e.December 16th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

Karakalpak? :-D

Giovanni 'Prestige'December 16th, 2007 at 7:31 pm

One of the Turkic languages.

ChrisDecember 16th, 2007 at 10:14 pm

It’s Kazakh.

ARDecember 16th, 2007 at 11:13 pm

h.e. got it. anyone would if you visit omniglot every weekend. lol
@Chris: its close to kazakh

renato figueiredoDecember 17th, 2007 at 12:02 am

I agrre with Giovanni, it is from a Turkic family language. I’m in doubt between kazazh or Turkmen

PodolskyDecember 17th, 2007 at 9:31 am

Kirghiz.

SimonDecember 17th, 2007 at 4:21 pm

h.e. got it right – it is indeed Karakalpak, a Turkic language spoken mainly in Uzbekistan.

The recording comes from YouTube, and there are links to other videos of people speaking Karakalpak on that page.