Language quiz

Here’s a recording in a mystery language.

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

April 22nd, 2012 in Language, Quiz questions

Comments (3)

Chris MillerApril 23rd, 2012 at 6:38 pm

Tough one. NOT European or Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian(!)

My first guess is a language of South America; my second is some inner Austronesian language. Can’t say much beyond that though.

SimonApril 23rd, 2012 at 7:14 pm

Your second guess it warm – it is an Austronesian language, and more specifically, Micronesian.

SimonApril 24th, 2012 at 9:56 am

Perhaps nobody is going to get this one – the answer is Kiribati (taetae ni Kiribati), a Micronesian language spoken in Kiribati, Fiji, Nauru, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

The recording comes from the GRN (The Prodigal Son).