Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
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Well it sounds like the exasperated man at the beginning is calling out to Allah, and the person speaking later sounds like a speaker of something within the Indonesian archipelago. So, my guess is something from Sumatra or Java or another Indonesian island with a Muslim majority population. Am I close?
You’re in the right area – it is spoken on an Indonesian island near Sumatra.
The language is Simeulue, a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Simeulue, an island off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia.
Well it sounds like the exasperated man at the beginning is calling out to Allah, and the person speaking later sounds like a speaker of something within the Indonesian archipelago. So, my guess is something from Sumatra or Java or another Indonesian island with a Muslim majority population. Am I close?
You’re in the right area – it is spoken on an Indonesian island near Sumatra.
The language is Simeulue, a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Simeulue, an island off the west coast of Sumatra in Indonesia.
The recording comes from YouTube: