Language quiz 3 January 2016 By Simon Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
Sounds to me like an Aleut language and given what seems like Danish inflection I guess Greenlandic. Reply
I was going to say Amerindian, and closer to Navajo, so something Na-Dine or maybe Algonquian. It looks like we’ve got a real contest, Roger. Reply
Definitely an indigenous language of North America. To at least slightly narrow it down, I’m thinking it’s something from the West Coast of the US / Canada. Maybe something from the Salishan family? Reply
The answer is Spokane (Npoqínišcn), a dialect of Salish / Séliš spoken in Washinton State in the USA. The recording comes from the GRN. Reply
Sounds to me like an Aleut language and given what seems like Danish inflection I guess Greenlandic.
I was going to say Amerindian, and closer to Navajo, so something Na-Dine or maybe Algonquian. It looks like we’ve got a real contest, Roger.
I’ll go with the ‘close to Navajo’.
Definitely an indigenous language of North America. To at least slightly narrow it down, I’m thinking it’s something from the West Coast of the US / Canada. Maybe something from the Salishan family?
I was thinking Salishan too. How about Klallam?
I don’t think I heard [o], so e might want to check phoneme inventories..
The answer is Spokane (Npoqínišcn), a dialect of Salish / Séliš spoken in Washinton State in the USA.
The recording comes from the GRN.