Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
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Somewhere in Latinamerica – beyond that …..
With the palatals, high unrounded vowels, breathy vowels, and glottalized consonants, I wanted to aim for Mainland Southeast Asia, but all the clear Spanish borrowing (e.g. “Jesucristo”), I will go for an indigenous language of Latin America. Something from the Amazonian regions of Spanish-speaking countries near the Brazilian border?
I couldn’t come up with a guess from the clip itself, but I wanted something that sounded SE Asian but with Spanish borrowings I’d guess an indigenous language of the Philippines.
The answer is Kakwa, which is spoken in parts of Colombia and Brazil and is possibly a language isolate.
Somewhere in Latinamerica – beyond that …..
With the palatals, high unrounded vowels, breathy vowels, and glottalized consonants, I wanted to aim for Mainland Southeast Asia, but all the clear Spanish borrowing (e.g. “Jesucristo”), I will go for an indigenous language of Latin America. Something from the Amazonian regions of Spanish-speaking countries near the Brazilian border?
I couldn’t come up with a guess from the clip itself, but I wanted something that sounded SE Asian but with Spanish borrowings I’d guess an indigenous language of the Philippines.
The answer is Kakwa, which is spoken in parts of Colombia and Brazil and is possibly a language isolate.
The recording comes from the the GRN.