Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
8 thoughts on “Language quiz”
I think some people would classify this one as a dialect of Dutch.
I was thinking the same – something in the Dutch-Flemish-Afrikaans continuum?
I’m going to guess Zeelandic.
It sounds pretty Dutch to me, but I won’t go any further, apart from suggesting that it’s not Afrikaans. When I hear Afrikaans I get the feeling that if I really tried I would understand it. I don’t, but anyway I don’t get that feeling with Dutch.
It sounds like a dutch (Netherlands) dialect to me, not Afrikaans or any of the Flemish dialects.
The ‘singsong’ intonation reminds me of the pitch accent in Norwegian and Swedish. If this language is on the Dutch-Flemish-Afrikaans continuum had had a pitch accent, it would have to be Limburgs.
Frisian?
The language is Zeelandic (Zeêuws), a Low Franconian language spoken in the provinces of South Holland and Zeeland in the south of the Netherlands.
I think some people would classify this one as a dialect of Dutch.
I was thinking the same – something in the Dutch-Flemish-Afrikaans continuum?
I’m going to guess Zeelandic.
It sounds pretty Dutch to me, but I won’t go any further, apart from suggesting that it’s not Afrikaans. When I hear Afrikaans I get the feeling that if I really tried I would understand it. I don’t, but anyway I don’t get that feeling with Dutch.
It sounds like a dutch (Netherlands) dialect to me, not Afrikaans or any of the Flemish dialects.
The ‘singsong’ intonation reminds me of the pitch accent in Norwegian and Swedish. If this language is on the Dutch-Flemish-Afrikaans continuum had had a pitch accent, it would have to be Limburgs.
Frisian?
The language is Zeelandic (Zeêuws), a Low Franconian language spoken in the provinces of South Holland and Zeeland in the south of the Netherlands.
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