Here’s a recording in a mystery language.
Do you know or can you guess the language, and do you know where (and when) it was spoken?
Here’s a recording in a mystery language.
Do you know or can you guess the language, and do you know where (and when) it was spoken?
Something Italic. Maybe Old Latin?
It’s Oscan.
Sounds to me like a Finnic language variety of some kind, but I’m not sure which.
Never mind, it IS Oscan! It’s this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmt3-nZt9Ng. Interesting; usually, IME, Simon says “where it was spoken” if the language is extinct…
Vijay John – I forgot to do that this time.
It seemed to me Faliscan, Oscan or some other Italic one, but … wow !… how quickly the answer appears!
Hmm, my thought was that the phonology resembled Greek, but the underlying words sounded much closer to the vocabulary of a Romance language. But maybe that’s what Oscan was like, or maybe even that was the strategy they took when trying to reconstruct it.
Does Greek have [ow]?
The language is Oscan (FANGVAM OSCA / 𐌀𐌊𐌔𐌏 𐌌𐌀𐌖𐌂𐌍𐌀𐌚), an Italic language that was spoken in southern Italy between about the 5th and 1st centuries BC.
The recording comes from YouTube: