Language quiz

Here’s a recording in a mystery language.

Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?

August 28th, 2011 in Language, Quiz questions

Comments (6)

ArakunAugust 28th, 2011 at 8:52 am

Faroese and Danish. I was wondering when you’d post Faroese. :)

Trond EngenAugust 28th, 2011 at 10:23 am

Not much Faroese from the Danish minister of fisheries, even when she’s talking about negotiating macquerel quotas on Faroese radio. The newsreader’s speaking Faroese, though, and I’m a bit disappointed with myself that I couldn’t understand all he said.

praseAugust 28th, 2011 at 3:30 pm

Certainly Germanic, my first guess was Danish.

Petréa MitchellAugust 28th, 2011 at 5:01 pm

Sounds very Scandinavian to me.

JayanAugust 28th, 2011 at 7:35 pm

jaj for dansk! :D

SimonAugust 29th, 2011 at 9:06 am

The answer is Faroese (Føroyskt), which is spoken in the Faroe Islands (Føroyar), and Danish (dansk), which is spoken mainly in Denmark (Danmark).

The recording comes from the Kringvarp Føroya.