Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
12 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
Sounds like a Native American language to me, possibly North American.
This recording has very frequent nasal sounds, even on consonants, and I only know of one language like that: Eperara/Epena, an Emberá language of Colombia, where nasals can spread throughout entire words
I would agree with Emanuel in that it sounds like a Native American language, perhaps from the west coast? I thought I heard the Welsh “ll” sound which to me is from the Pacific Northwest of the US or the coast of British Columbia (maybe Haida Gwaii?)
This sounds Native American, but which one? I think it is neither Algonkian nor Sioux nor Central or South American , nor Salish, nor Uto-Nahua, nor Californian , nor Iroquois, nor Wakash. Maybe some Athapascan, or Eyak, or Haida? Don’t lose, honestly.
The “problem” with Haida is that it features no nasal vowels and rather few nasal consonants …
Since it has just now been posted can it be Yakama?
Ruling out “central or south american” is really unfair since that’s not a family, and many languages in that region do have a lot of nasals. Also I’m familiar with Nez Perce which is close to Yakama, and it sounds nothing like this recording
I just thought of something: It sounds like Guarani, but Guarani seems too well-known to be here, so could it be Kaingang, Pilagá, Toba Qom, or Wichi?
Or Kaiwá or Pai Tavytera
I think I heard a voiceless lateral fricative and a voiceless labiodental fricative, which suggests Mvskoke or Mikasuki, but I might have heard K’taqmkuk/Taqamkuk, the Mi’kmaq name for Newfoundland
It could be Omaha, that has nasal vowels
The answer is Seri (Cmiique Iitom), a language isolate spoken in the villages of Punta Chueca and El Desemboque in Sonora in northern Mexico.
Sounds like a Native American language to me, possibly North American.
This recording has very frequent nasal sounds, even on consonants, and I only know of one language like that: Eperara/Epena, an Emberá language of Colombia, where nasals can spread throughout entire words
I would agree with Emanuel in that it sounds like a Native American language, perhaps from the west coast? I thought I heard the Welsh “ll” sound which to me is from the Pacific Northwest of the US or the coast of British Columbia (maybe Haida Gwaii?)
This sounds Native American, but which one? I think it is neither Algonkian nor Sioux nor Central or South American , nor Salish, nor Uto-Nahua, nor Californian , nor Iroquois, nor Wakash. Maybe some Athapascan, or Eyak, or Haida? Don’t lose, honestly.
The “problem” with Haida is that it features no nasal vowels and rather few nasal consonants …
Since it has just now been posted can it be Yakama?
Ruling out “central or south american” is really unfair since that’s not a family, and many languages in that region do have a lot of nasals. Also I’m familiar with Nez Perce which is close to Yakama, and it sounds nothing like this recording
I just thought of something: It sounds like Guarani, but Guarani seems too well-known to be here, so could it be Kaingang, Pilagá, Toba Qom, or Wichi?
Or Kaiwá or Pai Tavytera
I think I heard a voiceless lateral fricative and a voiceless labiodental fricative, which suggests Mvskoke or Mikasuki, but I might have heard K’taqmkuk/Taqamkuk, the Mi’kmaq name for Newfoundland
It could be Omaha, that has nasal vowels
The answer is Seri (Cmiique Iitom), a language isolate spoken in the villages of Punta Chueca and El Desemboque in Sonora in northern Mexico.
The recording comes from YouTube: