Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
8 thoughts on “Language quiz”
Could it be an Italian dialect that has intermixed with elements of Brazilian Portuguese.
Something in the Italian continuum. It has ufor the masculine definite article, like Sicilian and southern varieties, but it has geminated /l:/ instead of the geminated retroflex /d:/ (sorry, no IPA on my iPad!) that takes its place in Sicilian. There are several distinct regional varieties across the southeastern end of the peninsula and since I don’t know enough about them to be sure, I’m going to guess that this is Neapolitan/Nnapulitanu.
High speed Italian dialect maybe Calabrian
I will say Corsican.
To cover all bets I will say Sardinian.
I was going to say Mallorcan. 🙂
d.m.f.
Chris got it – the answer is Corsican, (corsu), a Romance language spoken in Corsica.
Could it be an Italian dialect that has intermixed with elements of Brazilian Portuguese.
Something in the Italian continuum. It has ufor the masculine definite article, like Sicilian and southern varieties, but it has geminated /l:/ instead of the geminated retroflex /d:/ (sorry, no IPA on my iPad!) that takes its place in Sicilian. There are several distinct regional varieties across the southeastern end of the peninsula and since I don’t know enough about them to be sure, I’m going to guess that this is Neapolitan/Nnapulitanu.
High speed Italian dialect maybe Calabrian
I will say Corsican.
To cover all bets I will say Sardinian.
I was going to say Mallorcan. 🙂
d.m.f.
Chris got it – the answer is Corsican, (corsu), a Romance language spoken in Corsica.
The recording comes from YouTube
Chris Miller to Chris Sundita:
— Think you can guess this one?
Chris Sundita:
— Of Course-I-Can!