Do you know or can you guess the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
10 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
It must be related to Japanese
Very Japonic sounding. Okinawan or something like the ones that were listed this past week?
Japonic, I’d say. “Mukashi-mukashi” in Japanese means “a long time ago; in the olden days” (as in fairy tales, for example). A divergent Japanese regional variety perhaps?
Of the four Ryukyuan languages Simon recently posted, only Kikai has , so I think that’s it.
Has [ʑ], you mean? Yeah, I thought of that, too, but if it’s in (southern) Kikai, I can’t find the recording for it, either!
It’s clearly Japonic. It sounds like Kanto to me, the standard Japanese dialect, but I’m not sure.
The language is Okinoerabu (島ムニ), a Northern Ryukyuan language spoken on Okinoerabu Island (沖永良部島) in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan.
It must be related to Japanese
Very Japonic sounding. Okinawan or something like the ones that were listed this past week?
Japonic, I’d say. “Mukashi-mukashi” in Japanese means “a long time ago; in the olden days” (as in fairy tales, for example). A divergent Japanese regional variety perhaps?
Of the four Ryukyuan languages Simon recently posted, only Kikai has , so I think that’s it.
Has [ʑ], you mean? Yeah, I thought of that, too, but if it’s in (southern) Kikai, I can’t find the recording for it, either!
It’s clearly Japonic. It sounds like Kanto to me, the standard Japanese dialect, but I’m not sure.
The language is Okinoerabu (島ムニ), a Northern Ryukyuan language spoken on Okinoerabu Island (沖永良部島) in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan.
The recording comes from YouTube:
Simon, the link to Okinoerabu fails, although the page is available.
It was missing a ” – it’ll work now.
I like how Simon and I are now the only ones who have posted twice in this thread. 🙂