Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
7 thoughts on “Language quiz”
Wild guess that’s it’s spoken somewhere in the Balkans.
Sounds Turkic to me, but I’m not sure. Best guess: Yakut?
My ears tell me that it could be one of the Kartvelian languages spoken in the Caucasus region.
I hear the common Iranian words for ‘man’ (mard) and ‘day’ (rūz), and the recognizable low vowel distinction between an [æ]-like vowel and a rounded backer vowel. At the same time, I hear front-ish rounded vowels much like the Turkic languages. My guess is this is a language of one of these two families (Iranian?) with heavy influence of the other (Turkic?).
All that to say, I’m going to guess Talysh. Am I close?
I’m guessing an Iranic language. Could be Ossetic, Pashto, Persian or Yakhnobi or something like that?
Definitely an Iranian language. Pashto, Balochi?
The language is Shughni / Kushani (xuǧnůn ziv / хуг̌ну̊н зив), a Pamir language spoken in Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
Wild guess that’s it’s spoken somewhere in the Balkans.
Sounds Turkic to me, but I’m not sure. Best guess: Yakut?
My ears tell me that it could be one of the Kartvelian languages spoken in the Caucasus region.
I hear the common Iranian words for ‘man’ (mard) and ‘day’ (rūz), and the recognizable low vowel distinction between an [æ]-like vowel and a rounded backer vowel. At the same time, I hear front-ish rounded vowels much like the Turkic languages. My guess is this is a language of one of these two families (Iranian?) with heavy influence of the other (Turkic?).
All that to say, I’m going to guess Talysh. Am I close?
I’m guessing an Iranic language. Could be Ossetic, Pashto, Persian or Yakhnobi or something like that?
Definitely an Iranian language. Pashto, Balochi?
The language is Shughni / Kushani (xuǧnůn ziv / хуг̌ну̊н зив), a Pamir language spoken in Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
The recording comes from the GRN.