8 thoughts on “Language quiz

  1. I’m thinking along similar lines to Jonathan – an Iranian language, although perhaps not closely related to Persian. I don’t hear any hint of phonetic influence from Russian, so I’m guessing it is not from one of the former Soviet republics. Perhaps S. Caucasus, Asia Minor or Central Asia. One of the languages coming under the umbrella of ‘Kurdish’?

  2. Indigenous language of North America. No marked consonants, mostly voiced stops, a smattering of nasalized vowels – makes me think of Cherokee, Cree, and other Iroquoian or Algonquian languages.

  3. Sounds like a language belonging to the Algonquian or Siouan language family traditionally spoken on the Great Plains.

    Maybe Blackfoot, Cheyenne or Dakota. I’m not hearing any ‘washte’ or ‘tetonka’…so it’s definitely not Lakota…hahaha.

  4. I’m pretty sure the speaker’s native language is US English, but the first couple words sound like a borrowing Buenos días from Spanish. So I’ll guess an indigenous language spoken in what’s now the southwestern US.

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