Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
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It sounds somewhat Bantu as well as something from the Amazon jungle.
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard this exact recording before on the youtube channel ILoveLanguages, and if I remember right it was an indigenous language of Mexico. I think it’s an Oto-Manguean language but I don’t know which one
CDK,
I went into the various languages in the Oto-Manguean family and I found Copala de Triqui. I am not sure if I found the passage being read but the person reading it certainly seems to have the same voice. Maybe you are right!
It seems to be a language of Mexico, (perhaps Otomangue-triqui de Copala, I agree with CDK and Hank). To my understanding it does not seem to be either Mayan or Andean (Quechua, Aymara …), or Uto-Nahua, or Mapudungun (Mapuche, Huilliche). It resembles some Amazonian languages, but … after the previous quiz … it was not Turkish-Mongolian but Berber – ha ha !! … clearly I don’t know.
The answer is Chimane (tsinsimik), a language isolate spoken in western Bolivia.
It sounds somewhat Bantu as well as something from the Amazon jungle.
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard this exact recording before on the youtube channel ILoveLanguages, and if I remember right it was an indigenous language of Mexico. I think it’s an Oto-Manguean language but I don’t know which one
CDK,
I went into the various languages in the Oto-Manguean family and I found Copala de Triqui. I am not sure if I found the passage being read but the person reading it certainly seems to have the same voice. Maybe you are right!
It seems to be a language of Mexico, (perhaps Otomangue-triqui de Copala, I agree with CDK and Hank). To my understanding it does not seem to be either Mayan or Andean (Quechua, Aymara …), or Uto-Nahua, or Mapudungun (Mapuche, Huilliche). It resembles some Amazonian languages, but … after the previous quiz … it was not Turkish-Mongolian but Berber – ha ha !! … clearly I don’t know.
The answer is Chimane (tsinsimik), a language isolate spoken in western Bolivia.
The recording comes from YouTube: