Do you know or can you guess which language it’s in and where it’s spoken?
26 thoughts on “Language quiz”
Amharic
This week I don’t have any idea of which language is spoken, but the news is about Barak Obama, the American president.
I’m guessing CHECHAN spoken in Chechnya as I think I heard the word in the recording.
I’ll take a wild guess and posit that it’s one of the dizzyingly many languages of the Indian subcontinent. . . .
Amharic, I think.
Tigrinya
The words seems very clear to me. It sounds good to me but I don’t know what language this is.
not a clue!
maybe estonian or finnish?
It sounds a bit like Tigrinya but it is NOT. Sorry, I have no idea what it is…..
I agree with Onotheo – the speaking is somehow very “clear” sounding to my ear, but I do not know the language. I know its not Russian but to my amateur ear it sounds similar.
I take a chance this is from the Caucasian mountain range.
Doesn’t sound turkic, and not slavic to my ear so we might cancel out the caucasian range.
I would go for Amharic, or something African.
Well, I’m pretty sure it’s not an Indian language; didn’t have the right feel. It did sound like something Semitic, and since the most popular guess is Amharic, I’ll go with that, though having never hear Amharic before, I can’t be sure.
Now that I have read your comments, I would also say Amharic.
However, my first guess turned to Kurdish.
I have no real idea, so how about Indonesian?
Malayalam?
Definitely not Indonesian, Petrea 😉
The language is Amharic (ኣማርኛ), which is spoken mainly in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
I was not entirely sure but my guess (the first one on the list) was correct. I actually thought it was from an Israeli radio station because Barak is mentioned there. This is probably Ehud Barak – the current minister of defence in the Israeli government, and not Barack Obama. I have heared this language here and there in Israel but not enough to be sure it was it. Ethiopian immigrants in Israel still speak it.
Even though I noticed “minister Barak” I couldn’t get around this one. I got stuck with what I thought was a Portuguese loan in /amerikãõ/.
I’ve heard Amharic spoken in Israel a lot, and it does sound like it after knowing it’s it. But it was always spoken quickly and there was something different about it when I heard it, so I couldn’t tell it’s Amharic before.
Well, I consulted a colleague from Eritrea. She grew up outside that area but speaks Tigrinya. So that’s why I was sure it was not that laguage. But she did not recognise it was Amharic. May be the recording is with an accent???
My guess is either Amharic or Magyar
it’s already stated that it’s Amharic 🙂
Well, I’m late. But it doesn’t sound like any language I’m familiar with. At least I could tell that it was not Estonian or Finnish, as someone of you guessed.
Amharic
This week I don’t have any idea of which language is spoken, but the news is about Barak Obama, the American president.
I’m guessing CHECHAN spoken in Chechnya as I think I heard the word in the recording.
I’ll take a wild guess and posit that it’s one of the dizzyingly many languages of the Indian subcontinent. . . .
Amharic, I think.
Tigrinya
The words seems very clear to me. It sounds good to me but I don’t know what language this is.
not a clue!
maybe estonian or finnish?
It sounds a bit like Tigrinya but it is NOT. Sorry, I have no idea what it is…..
I agree with Onotheo – the speaking is somehow very “clear” sounding to my ear, but I do not know the language. I know its not Russian but to my amateur ear it sounds similar.
I take a chance this is from the Caucasian mountain range.
Doesn’t sound turkic, and not slavic to my ear so we might cancel out the caucasian range.
I would go for Amharic, or something African.
Well, I’m pretty sure it’s not an Indian language; didn’t have the right feel. It did sound like something Semitic, and since the most popular guess is Amharic, I’ll go with that, though having never hear Amharic before, I can’t be sure.
Now that I have read your comments, I would also say Amharic.
However, my first guess turned to Kurdish.
I have no real idea, so how about Indonesian?
Malayalam?
Definitely not Indonesian, Petrea 😉
The language is Amharic (ኣማርኛ), which is spoken mainly in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
The recording comes from Kol Israel.
I was not entirely sure but my guess (the first one on the list) was correct. I actually thought it was from an Israeli radio station because Barak is mentioned there. This is probably Ehud Barak – the current minister of defence in the Israeli government, and not Barack Obama. I have heared this language here and there in Israel but not enough to be sure it was it. Ethiopian immigrants in Israel still speak it.
Even though I noticed “minister Barak” I couldn’t get around this one. I got stuck with what I thought was a Portuguese loan in /amerikãõ/.
I’ve heard Amharic spoken in Israel a lot, and it does sound like it after knowing it’s it. But it was always spoken quickly and there was something different about it when I heard it, so I couldn’t tell it’s Amharic before.
Well, I consulted a colleague from Eritrea. She grew up outside that area but speaks Tigrinya. So that’s why I was sure it was not that laguage. But she did not recognise it was Amharic. May be the recording is with an accent???
My guess is either Amharic or Magyar
it’s already stated that it’s Amharic 🙂
Well, I’m late. But it doesn’t sound like any language I’m familiar with. At least I could tell that it was not Estonian or Finnish, as someone of you guessed.