Language quiz
Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess which language it is?
Clue: this is an indigenous language of Central America.
July 5th, 2008 in
Language, Quiz questions
Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Do you know or can you guess which language it is?
Clue: this is an indigenous language of Central America.
It’s a Mayan language, probably Yucatec of K’iche’, my guess.
d.m.f.
Probably Miskito, spoken in Honduras.
Zapotec?
I’m pretty sure it’s Miskito.
The language is indeed Miskito (Mískitu), a Misumalpan language spoken in parts of Nicaragua and Honduras by about 180,000 people.
The recording comes from Global Recordings.
I like it when people who guess correctly tell how they did it.
Iguessed Miskito because I heard what sounded like a syllable initial [kr] cluster in something that didn’t sound like a Spanish loan. IIRC Miskito is one of the few native american languages with that kind of initial cluster. After that I went to the wikipedia page and saw that lots of sentences end in na (and the word bukra – that) which I’d heard in the recording.