Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
5 thoughts on “Language quiz”
I hate to be the first one to come forward with a suggestion. 😉
All I can say is that, in my ears, it sounds like a Native American language. But then, it may also be that it’s spoken in Siberia. Hm, hm, hm….
I want to think it’s an Algonquian language, but can’t get a fix on it. Very pleasant-sounding language, though — my wife commented that it’d be perfect for reading a bedtime story to kids — and it probably isn’t moribund since the speaker sounds young and fluent.
I’m not sure why it sounded so “French” to me at first (other than the final glottal stops), maybe because I came straight from lesson 1 of Frantastique and was trying to hear French. Confusing at first, for sure. Maybe something northern Athabaskan? Possibly spoken in the Mt McKinley region?
Sorry, _former_ Mt McKinley
The answer is Kickapoo, an Algonquian language spoken in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas in the USA, and in Coahuila in Mexico.
I hate to be the first one to come forward with a suggestion. 😉
All I can say is that, in my ears, it sounds like a Native American language. But then, it may also be that it’s spoken in Siberia. Hm, hm, hm….
I want to think it’s an Algonquian language, but can’t get a fix on it. Very pleasant-sounding language, though — my wife commented that it’d be perfect for reading a bedtime story to kids — and it probably isn’t moribund since the speaker sounds young and fluent.
I’m not sure why it sounded so “French” to me at first (other than the final glottal stops), maybe because I came straight from lesson 1 of Frantastique and was trying to hear French. Confusing at first, for sure. Maybe something northern Athabaskan? Possibly spoken in the Mt McKinley region?
Sorry, _former_ Mt McKinley
The answer is Kickapoo, an Algonquian language spoken in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas in the USA, and in Coahuila in Mexico.
The recording comes from the GRN.