Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
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I can’t catch any features that would pin it down anywhere. I wonder if no-one else has guessed yet for the same reason. But I’ll throw out Amerindian somewhere in the Amazon basin to get things rolling.
I hear the word “krismas” several times. That should indicate an influence by English and not so much by Portuguese or Spanish.
Just a shot in the dark: maybe a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Central or Eastern Africa.
Since the Americas or Central or Eastern Africa have been suggested, I’ll suggest somewhere in the Southwest Pacific. I can’t think where, though.
The answer is Paiwan a Formosan language spoken in Taiwan.
I can’t catch any features that would pin it down anywhere. I wonder if no-one else has guessed yet for the same reason. But I’ll throw out Amerindian somewhere in the Amazon basin to get things rolling.
I hear the word “krismas” several times. That should indicate an influence by English and not so much by Portuguese or Spanish.
Just a shot in the dark: maybe a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in Central or Eastern Africa.
Since the Americas or Central or Eastern Africa have been suggested, I’ll suggest somewhere in the Southwest Pacific. I can’t think where, though.
The answer is Paiwan a Formosan language spoken in Taiwan.
The recording comes from the GRN.
Wow, the Formosan languages are really interesting. Thanks for this one.
It’s funny … I thought it was Austronesian (I speak some Indonesian), but I couldn’t recognize one single word, so I decided no.