Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
7 thoughts on “Language quiz”
A fairly wild guess is an East African Language with slight Portuguese influence, maybe from Mozambique.
The pronunciation of Jesus /χe’sus/ points strongly to Spanish influence, rather than Portuguese. I would therefore guess that it is from somewhere in Spanish-speaking Latin Amerca. My ignorance of languages from that part of the world does not allow me to be any more specific than that.
Wild guess: a former Spanish colony in Micronesia/the Caroline Islands, so let’s say Yapese.
The high tone at or near the end of phrases reminds me of the English of one of the announcers at Hawaii Public Radio, but I don’t think it’s English (or a Micronesian language, for that matter, although I’m not sure).
David – you’re right about the Spanish influence. Here’s a clue – this language is spoken in one of the larger countries of South America.
Didn’t we have that language before? At least it reminds me of languages of the Mataco-Guaicuru family such as Toba or Whichí Lhamtés spoken in Argentina.
The answer is Iyojwa’ja Chorote (Eklenhui), a Matacoan language spoken in the province of Salta in the northeast of Argentina.
A fairly wild guess is an East African Language with slight Portuguese influence, maybe from Mozambique.
The pronunciation of Jesus /χe’sus/ points strongly to Spanish influence, rather than Portuguese. I would therefore guess that it is from somewhere in Spanish-speaking Latin Amerca. My ignorance of languages from that part of the world does not allow me to be any more specific than that.
Wild guess: a former Spanish colony in Micronesia/the Caroline Islands, so let’s say Yapese.
The high tone at or near the end of phrases reminds me of the English of one of the announcers at Hawaii Public Radio, but I don’t think it’s English (or a Micronesian language, for that matter, although I’m not sure).
David – you’re right about the Spanish influence. Here’s a clue – this language is spoken in one of the larger countries of South America.
Didn’t we have that language before? At least it reminds me of languages of the Mataco-Guaicuru family such as Toba or Whichí Lhamtés spoken in Argentina.
The answer is Iyojwa’ja Chorote (Eklenhui), a Matacoan language spoken in the province of Salta in the northeast of Argentina.
The recording comes from the GRN.