Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
7 thoughts on “Language quiz”
Sure it is a Turkic language, but I don’t know which one.
Sounds like a Turkic language in close contact with Persian, given the several obvious loanwords. Qashqai, perhaps?
Sounds quite Turkic to me as well with some Indo-Iranian phonological influence.
I don’t know, may be the variety of Turkmen spoken in northern Iraq??
You’re on the right lines – it is a Turkic language, but is spoken quite a bit further east.
Let’s say it’s Tuvan.
Uyghur?
David got it – the answer is Yarkandi (ئۇيغۇرچە), a dialect of Uighur spoken in Shache/Yarkant/Yarkand County (يەكەن ناھىيىسى) in Xinjiang (شىنجاڭ) in China.
Sure it is a Turkic language, but I don’t know which one.
Sounds like a Turkic language in close contact with Persian, given the several obvious loanwords. Qashqai, perhaps?
Sounds quite Turkic to me as well with some Indo-Iranian phonological influence.
I don’t know, may be the variety of Turkmen spoken in northern Iraq??
You’re on the right lines – it is a Turkic language, but is spoken quite a bit further east.
Let’s say it’s Tuvan.
Uyghur?
David got it – the answer is Yarkandi (ئۇيغۇرچە), a dialect of Uighur spoken in Shache/Yarkant/Yarkand County (يەكەن ناھىيىسى) in Xinjiang (شىنجاڭ) in China.
The recording comes from the GRN.