Language quiz

Here’s a recording in a mystery language.

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

November 11th, 2012 in Language, Quiz questions

Comments (6)

ArakunNovember 11th, 2012 at 4:11 pm

Could it be Aleut, spoken in Alaska and Kamchatka?

SimonNovember 11th, 2012 at 6:35 pm

Right area, more or less, wrong language.

DaydreamerNovember 11th, 2012 at 7:39 pm

Not so mysterious this language any more, since we had it once before.
(I remember the woman’s voice in the sound clip or the video on YouTube the other clip was linked to.)

David CraigNovember 12th, 2012 at 2:13 am

Sounds like a Na-dene language to me.

ElendilNovember 12th, 2012 at 7:04 am

Tlingit, maybe?

SimonNovember 12th, 2012 at 3:01 pm

The answer is Tlingit (Lingít), a Na-Dene language spoken in parts of Alaska in the USA, and British Colombia and the Yukon Territory in Canada.

The recording comes from YouTube.

Daydreamer – I’d forgotten that I’d used this clip before and it was quite a while ago.