Language quiz

Here’s a recording in a mystery language.

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

October 23rd, 2011 in Language, Quiz questions

Comments (5)

andreOctober 23rd, 2011 at 1:05 am

My my, that sounds rather generic. Could be anything!

I do hear a lot of uvular plosives /q/ and glottal stops. I would probably guess something from North Africa.

andreOctober 23rd, 2011 at 1:24 am

Or not. Seems many if not most North African languages don’t have uvular consonants. Central Asian?

d.m.falkOctober 23rd, 2011 at 10:09 am

Sounds like a Mayan language to me.

d.m.f.

Dennis KingOctober 23rd, 2011 at 7:04 pm

It’s Hopi. (blah blah blah) [I wrote "It's Hopi" and the device told me that my comment was a bit too short and that I should try again. Thus the filler.]

SimonOctober 24th, 2011 at 2:16 pm

The answer is Hopi (Hopilàvayi), an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in parts of Arizona in the USA.

The recording comes from the YouTube. There is also an English version.