Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
6 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
Is it possibly something from Australia?
Sounds like Cantonese or some other Chinese dialect.
It cannot be any Australian language because they have not “s” sound. I think this is an African languge from the Gulf of Guinea.Witch languge exactly? I do not know…but perhaps Kwa or Kru.
You’re on the right lines, David – it is a Kru language.
The answer is Southern Grebo, a Western Kru langage spoken in Liberia & Ivory Coast.
The recording comes from YouTube:
I love that as the recording progressed, my guess for the language’s region shifted from Indochina to West Africa to Melanesia and finally back to West Africa.
Is it possibly something from Australia?
Sounds like Cantonese or some other Chinese dialect.
It cannot be any Australian language because they have not “s” sound. I think this is an African languge from the Gulf of Guinea.Witch languge exactly? I do not know…but perhaps Kwa or Kru.
You’re on the right lines, David – it is a Kru language.
The answer is Southern Grebo, a Western Kru langage spoken in Liberia & Ivory Coast.
The recording comes from YouTube:
I love that as the recording progressed, my guess for the language’s region shifted from Indochina to West Africa to Melanesia and finally back to West Africa.