Language quiz

Here’s a recording in a mystery language.

Do you know or can you guess which language it’s in and where it’s spoken?

Comments (11)

farriothApril 19th, 2009 at 1:13 am

Tok Pisin, spoken in Papua New Guinea.

Great to see that the blog is up and running again.

SeanApril 19th, 2009 at 3:40 am

Farrioth seema pretty certain, and I can’t listen to it on my Ipod, so I’ll trust him. (:

Also, why can’t we post on the forum? ):

FelixApril 19th, 2009 at 3:42 am

sounds like Tok Pisin to me, as well…

TJApril 19th, 2009 at 5:58 am

woooooohooooooooooooo

finally a blog again :)
welcome back mo chairde! :)

d.m.falkApril 19th, 2009 at 7:29 am

I was going to say definitely western Pacific/melanesian/austronesian in origin, and will stick with everyone else’s guess of tok pisin, of PNG. :)

d.m.f.
(Nice to see the blog return, though I wonder of the older entries at this time are even needed, and just start fresh, like the forum has…)

ZarathustraApril 19th, 2009 at 7:51 am

Some form of Pidgin English. Tok Pisin, maybe.

SimonApril 19th, 2009 at 8:46 am

Sean – I think the forum should be working properly now.

xarxaApril 19th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

tok pisin

michael farrisApril 20th, 2009 at 7:26 am

some kind of pacific pidgin, either tok pisin or bislama or something like that.

SimonApril 20th, 2009 at 5:52 pm

The language is Tok Pisin, which is spoken in Papua New Guinea.

The recording comes from Radio Australia.

JuliaMay 18th, 2009 at 2:50 am

some kind of creole w/ English