Language quiz
Here’s a recording of part of song in a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess what language it’s in and where it’s spoken?
Here’s a recording of part of song in a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess what language it’s in and where it’s spoken?
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Sounds like Spanish, but i’m guessing that would be too easy…
The music sounds kinda Caribbean-ish… could it be Papiamento? spoken in Curacao if I remember correctly.
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A wild shot in the dark – Yoruba.
definately very carribean sounding… portuguese?
It is a creole Spanish base language, it can be Caribbean or SouthEast Asiatic
I asked my mother (she’s fluent in spanish) and she said she thinks it’s what they speak in Brazil (Portuguese). So, I’m going with that.
Since the Spanish phrases “mi corazón” and “mi amor” can be identified in the recording, I’d go with tazgo and say it’s Papiamento. But then, the Dutch influence of that language is missing.
Alternatively could it be Garifuna, spoken mainly in Honduras? The people down there are reported to play some exciting music, too.
I think it might be Media Lengua, a Spanish-Quechua mixed language spoken in Ecuador.
Papiamentu.
It is indeed Papiamento, a creole language spoken in the Netherlands Antilles (Curaçao, Bonaire and Aruba). The song comes from YouTube.
So it’s the sample text in Papiamento.