Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
6 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
I wonder if it is a Filipino language since I hear sounds that remind me of that (and, since it refers to Jesus, I think of Christianity in the Philippines). However, I also hear sounds that make me think it is African and SOMETHING (not sure what) reminds me of an Indonesian language. This one will be a toughie!
For me, it’s an Eastern Indonesian language, Austronesian. Could not precise which one though.
sounds a bit like Swahili
Sounds like it has the possessive “-ku” of many Indonesian languages. Maybe from one of the majority-Christian areas of Indonesia, like Flores, which has a lot of local languages.
It sounds Malay-Polynesian but I’m not sure at all, I really don’t know.
The answer is Mentawai (Behase Mentawei), a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra Province of Indonesia.
I wonder if it is a Filipino language since I hear sounds that remind me of that (and, since it refers to Jesus, I think of Christianity in the Philippines). However, I also hear sounds that make me think it is African and SOMETHING (not sure what) reminds me of an Indonesian language. This one will be a toughie!
For me, it’s an Eastern Indonesian language, Austronesian. Could not precise which one though.
sounds a bit like Swahili
Sounds like it has the possessive “-ku” of many Indonesian languages. Maybe from one of the majority-Christian areas of Indonesia, like Flores, which has a lot of local languages.
It sounds Malay-Polynesian but I’m not sure at all, I really don’t know.
The answer is Mentawai (Behase Mentawei), a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra Province of Indonesia.
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