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?
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: