Language quiz

Here’s a recording in a mystery language.

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

August 26th, 2012 in Language, Quiz questions

Comments (7)

Christopher MillerAugust 26th, 2012 at 12:12 pm

It certainly sounds like one of the Turkic languages, but whether it’s one of the Central Asian ones or one of the Volga Turkic languages I can’t tell, at least on first listen.

Isa SARIAugust 26th, 2012 at 12:42 pm

Surely, it’s one of the Turkic languages, but it’s not Oguz subgroup. It’s like Kazakh, because it converts c>j.

TJAugust 27th, 2012 at 9:11 am

Uyghur?
Certainly Central Asia I would say.

SimonAugust 27th, 2012 at 2:24 pm

It is a Turkic language, but not one of the ones you’ve mentioned. It belongs to the Northwestern or Kypchak branch of Turkic languages.

DaydreamerAugust 27th, 2012 at 8:29 pm

Now that not too many languages left to choose from, I take Tatar spoken in Central Russia.

EeeAugust 28th, 2012 at 4:20 am

Since nobody is taking it, I’ll go for Kyrgyz.

SimonAugust 28th, 2012 at 10:01 am

It seems that nobody is going to get this – the answer is Karachay-Balkar (Къарачай-Малкъар тил), a Turkic language spoken mainly in Kabardino-Balkaria in Russia.

The recording comes from the GRN.