Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
8 thoughts on “Language quiz”
The accent sounds just like Kreyol I heard in Guadeloupe, but I don’t recognize any of the words as coming from French, so I’m going to guess something from West Africa.
I agree with Jonathan , it sounds West African probably from Nigeria.
I agree, with both Roger and Jonathan. It sounds like a West African language with French influence.
No quiz complete without my two cents 😉
Guess it’s a Bantu language spoken in Central or East Africa.
The nasal vowels could be inherent to that language and not necessarily taken from French.
The answer is Soga (Lusoga), a Bantu language spoken mainly in the Basoga region of southern Uganda.
Roger, Heike, I think we all lose. We’re off by some 5000 km (Africa is big), and the languages of Western Africa aren’t even in the Bantu family.
People here have no clue about African languages. How could it be West African (especially with French influence)? If the phonetics are equal to Swahili?
I think Jonathan has already expressed his ‘mea culpa’, so I feel that the tone of Demetrius’s comment is somewhat uncalled for. Not everyone can be an expert in everything!
The accent sounds just like Kreyol I heard in Guadeloupe, but I don’t recognize any of the words as coming from French, so I’m going to guess something from West Africa.
I agree with Jonathan , it sounds West African probably from Nigeria.
I agree, with both Roger and Jonathan. It sounds like a West African language with French influence.
No quiz complete without my two cents 😉
Guess it’s a Bantu language spoken in Central or East Africa.
The nasal vowels could be inherent to that language and not necessarily taken from French.
The answer is Soga (Lusoga), a Bantu language spoken mainly in the Basoga region of southern Uganda.
The recording comes from the GRN.
Roger, Heike, I think we all lose. We’re off by some 5000 km (Africa is big), and the languages of Western Africa aren’t even in the Bantu family.
People here have no clue about African languages. How could it be West African (especially with French influence)? If the phonetics are equal to Swahili?
I think Jonathan has already expressed his ‘mea culpa’, so I feel that the tone of Demetrius’s comment is somewhat uncalled for. Not everyone can be an expert in everything!