Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
8 thoughts on “Language quiz”
The closest I can get (and still may be totally wrong): it could be one of the Aboriginal languages of Australia.
All the repetition of ‘balna’ makes my brain shout “That’s ‘sick’ in Russian”, but there’s nothing else even remotely Slavic about it. Stumped.
Search on lexemes suggests some Misumalpan language (Nicaragua), perhaps Ulwa.
Don’t know what the language is but this appears to be the first verses of John’s Gospel, ‘balna’ meaning ‘word’ – and the English word of God is used – so it’s some place evangelized by English speakers, which could be anywhere, really.
I would guess somewhere in the Pacific maybe New Guinea.
Note the singular barking phonation and cluck consonants at 0:13.
This is clearly an example of the speech of the Skyloptenogyne, a mythical beast that is part dog, part chicken and part woman. I believe it lives somewhere in the S. Pacific.
The answer is Mayangna, a Misumalpan language spoken in Nicaragua.
The closest I can get (and still may be totally wrong): it could be one of the Aboriginal languages of Australia.
All the repetition of ‘balna’ makes my brain shout “That’s ‘sick’ in Russian”, but there’s nothing else even remotely Slavic about it. Stumped.
Search on lexemes suggests some Misumalpan language (Nicaragua), perhaps Ulwa.
Don’t know what the language is but this appears to be the first verses of John’s Gospel, ‘balna’ meaning ‘word’ – and the English word of God is used – so it’s some place evangelized by English speakers, which could be anywhere, really.
I would guess somewhere in the Pacific maybe New Guinea.
Note the singular barking phonation and cluck consonants at 0:13.
This is clearly an example of the speech of the Skyloptenogyne, a mythical beast that is part dog, part chicken and part woman. I believe it lives somewhere in the S. Pacific.
The answer is Mayangna, a Misumalpan language spoken in Nicaragua.
The recording comes from the GRN.