Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
5 thoughts on “Language quiz”
Uvulars, consonant clusters, glottalization, and unremarkable vowels… definitely indigenous to the Pacific Northwest, but hard to tell which language (family) given how much crosslinguistic convergence we see in the phonologies of that region. I’ll just guess, something Salishan?
Sounds to be an Aleut language, having guessed Greenlandic so many times before why not again.
I agree with Sameer above. It sounds very Pacific Northwest (Wakashan, Salishan, Haida etc.) to me with all those super complex consonant clusters and weird guttural consonants which would make attempting to learn to pronounce Arabic or Hebrew a walk in the park….hahaha 😛
I’m also going with Canadian Northwest, and I will suggest Kwakiutl, or Tlingit.
The answer is Nuxalk (Bella Coola), a Salishan language spoken in Bella Coola in British Colombia in Canada.
Uvulars, consonant clusters, glottalization, and unremarkable vowels… definitely indigenous to the Pacific Northwest, but hard to tell which language (family) given how much crosslinguistic convergence we see in the phonologies of that region. I’ll just guess, something Salishan?
Sounds to be an Aleut language, having guessed Greenlandic so many times before why not again.
I agree with Sameer above. It sounds very Pacific Northwest (Wakashan, Salishan, Haida etc.) to me with all those super complex consonant clusters and weird guttural consonants which would make attempting to learn to pronounce Arabic or Hebrew a walk in the park….hahaha 😛
I’m also going with Canadian Northwest, and I will suggest Kwakiutl, or Tlingit.
The answer is Nuxalk (Bella Coola), a Salishan language spoken in Bella Coola in British Colombia in Canada.
The recording comes from the Global Recordings Network.