Language quiz 15 April 2012 By Simon Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
Sounds like a creole/pidgin/patois language. Some of the words of this possibly African/Caribbean-accented sentence sound English. Reply
Judging from the number of appearances of “kan” at the end of a phrase or a sentence, I settle on Miskito spoken in Nicaragua. Reply
Daydreamer is right – it is Miskito (Mískitu), a Misumalpan language spoken by about 180,000 people in Nicaragua and Honduras. The recording comes from the GRN. Reply
Sounds like a creole/pidgin/patois language. Some of the words of this possibly African/Caribbean-accented sentence sound English.
I’m leaning toward southeast Asia… maybe something spoken in Indonesia?
Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Central America.
Judging from the number of appearances of “kan” at the end of a phrase or a sentence, I settle on Miskito spoken in Nicaragua.
Daydreamer is right – it is Miskito (Mískitu), a Misumalpan language spoken by about 180,000 people in Nicaragua and Honduras.
The recording comes from the GRN.
I’m having trouble finding this clip in the GRN link, though…I wonder where it is!
The clip is “3. The Wise Men” on that page, with a few bits cut out.