Do you know or can you guess the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
7 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
My weekly guess is that it is influenced by Spanish ( I heard “trabajo” in it plus some other words and/or sounds) so maybe an indigenous language of Mexico, Central America or even South America. Of course, as well, it might be something from the Philippines also influenced by Spanish.
There are Romance expressions, such as “parte de herencia” (or something like that), “trabajo”, and some others but I think these are loanwords in a non-Romance language. There also are nasal vowels which rules out most Romance languages apart from French, Portuguese and Galician. Listening to a sample of Galician, for example, I can identify every other word or root, at least, but not here. An Austronesian language is not likely either … So yes, a Native American language with a Romance superstrate is a good guess.
My guess is a South American or Central American indigenous language. not Mexican (North American), not Araucanian, or Quechua-Aymara-Jaqaru, or Selk’nam or Yamana … at the moment I don’t know what it is.
My weekly guess is that it is influenced by Spanish ( I heard “trabajo” in it plus some other words and/or sounds) so maybe an indigenous language of Mexico, Central America or even South America. Of course, as well, it might be something from the Philippines also influenced by Spanish.
I wonder if it’s some sort of Spanish dialect, more Northern Spain than Southern (I thought I heard a ‘th’ in ‘parte de erenzio’)
There are Romance expressions, such as “parte de herencia” (or something like that), “trabajo”, and some others but I think these are loanwords in a non-Romance language. There also are nasal vowels which rules out most Romance languages apart from French, Portuguese and Galician. Listening to a sample of Galician, for example, I can identify every other word or root, at least, but not here. An Austronesian language is not likely either … So yes, a Native American language with a Romance superstrate is a good guess.
It’s pretty clearly an indigenous language from a Spanish-speaking country, but beyond that I have no idea
My guess is a South American or Central American indigenous language. not Mexican (North American), not Araucanian, or Quechua-Aymara-Jaqaru, or Selk’nam or Yamana … at the moment I don’t know what it is.
I think it is related to Guaraní or Ava Ñe’e, maybe Mbyá o any other guaranitic language.
The language is Achagua (Achawa), a Northern Arawakan language spoken in central Colombia.
The recording comes from YouTube: