Language quiz 10 June 2018 By Simon Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
I hear central vowels, dorsal fricatives, and palatal consonants. Are we in the Horn of Africa? Then again, I don’t hear any ejectives. So maybe we’re in Micronesia or Melanesia?
Wow, so off! I’ll just guess Wolof, the only language that could still fit the specifics I mentioned.
The answer is Laalaa, a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Laa (Lehar) region of Senegal. The recording comes from YouTube:
I hear central vowels, dorsal fricatives, and palatal consonants. Are we in the Horn of Africa?
Then again, I don’t hear any ejectives. So maybe we’re in Micronesia or Melanesia?
Neither the Horn of Africa, nor Micronesia or Melanesia. This is a language spoken in West Africa.
Wow, so off! I’ll just guess Wolof, the only language that could still fit the specifics I mentioned.
(Er, the only language *that I know of* and that could still fit the specifics I mentioned.)
The answer is Laalaa, a Niger-Congo language spoken in the Laa (Lehar) region of Senegal.
The recording comes from YouTube: