Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
8 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
Cherokee?
I don’t know a single word of Navaho, but could this be Navaho?
My ears tell me that it could be a Na-Dene language. Maybe Tanana or Tlingit?
From some of the sounds I’d almost say it is Navajo but I don’t hear too many nasal sounds. It absolutely has to be an indigenous language of North America however especially from the timbre of the voice.
There are two or three nasal vowels in there, which I agree is not much compared to Navajo, but that plus the small set of vowel qualities compared with the frequency of affricates, lateral fricatives, and ejectives, along with the overall vocal quality, strongly suggests an Athabaskan language to me too.
??? Quechua
I think it’s Na-Dene. The tonology seems to rule out Tanacross.
The answer is Upper Tanana (Neeʼaandeegnʼ), an Athabaskan language spoken on the upper Tanana River in eastern Alaska in the USA.
Cherokee?
I don’t know a single word of Navaho, but could this be Navaho?
My ears tell me that it could be a Na-Dene language. Maybe Tanana or Tlingit?
From some of the sounds I’d almost say it is Navajo but I don’t hear too many nasal sounds. It absolutely has to be an indigenous language of North America however especially from the timbre of the voice.
There are two or three nasal vowels in there, which I agree is not much compared to Navajo, but that plus the small set of vowel qualities compared with the frequency of affricates, lateral fricatives, and ejectives, along with the overall vocal quality, strongly suggests an Athabaskan language to me too.
??? Quechua
I think it’s Na-Dene. The tonology seems to rule out Tanacross.
The answer is Upper Tanana (Neeʼaandeegnʼ), an Athabaskan language spoken on the upper Tanana River in eastern Alaska in the USA.
The recording comes from YouTube: