Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
3 thoughts on “Language quiz”
After the recent run of very difficult quizzes, has Simon given us one that is obviously Amerindian? I guess the experts will be along to get more specific than that, but if that’s correct I’ll count it as a success by my standards.
My first reaction was that this sounded a lot like a recording of Mohawk that was used for a quiz five years ago (!) that somehow got stuck in my mind. Upon closer inspection the phonology doesn’t match and I’m probably completely off. I’ll just echo Jonathan and say something Amerindian.
The answer is Cheyenne (TsÄ—hesenÄ—stsestotse), an Algonquian language spoken in Montana and Oklahoma in the USA.
The recording comes from http://www.cheyennelanguage.org/stories/ and is part of the story of The Bear, the Coyote, and the Skunk told by Jeanette Howlingcrane.
After the recent run of very difficult quizzes, has Simon given us one that is obviously Amerindian? I guess the experts will be along to get more specific than that, but if that’s correct I’ll count it as a success by my standards.
My first reaction was that this sounded a lot like a recording of Mohawk that was used for a quiz five years ago (!) that somehow got stuck in my mind. Upon closer inspection the phonology doesn’t match and I’m probably completely off. I’ll just echo Jonathan and say something Amerindian.
The answer is Cheyenne (TsÄ—hesenÄ—stsestotse), an Algonquian language spoken in Montana and Oklahoma in the USA.
The recording comes from http://www.cheyennelanguage.org/stories/ and is part of the story of The Bear, the Coyote, and the Skunk told by Jeanette Howlingcrane.