Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
5 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
hindi
I hear lots of palatalized and velarized consonants, with otherwise simple vowels, no sign of lexical tone, maybe an implosive or two, and possibly some interdental fricatives (like [θ]), or are those just labiodental (like [f])?
Are we in the western Pacific somewhere? Something Austronesian, I’m thinking…
It is Austronesian – specifically Micronesian.
I think I also heard /oi/, which, if it’s Micronesian, should point to Pohnpaian.
The answer is Mokilese (Mwoakilloa), a Micronesian language spoken in Mokil Atoll in the Pohnpei Islands in Micronesa, and also in the USA.
hindi
I hear lots of palatalized and velarized consonants, with otherwise simple vowels, no sign of lexical tone, maybe an implosive or two, and possibly some interdental fricatives (like [θ]), or are those just labiodental (like [f])?
Are we in the western Pacific somewhere? Something Austronesian, I’m thinking…
It is Austronesian – specifically Micronesian.
I think I also heard /oi/, which, if it’s Micronesian, should point to Pohnpaian.
The answer is Mokilese (Mwoakilloa), a Micronesian language spoken in Mokil Atoll in the Pohnpei Islands in Micronesa, and also in the USA.
The recording comes from YouTube: