Do you know or can you guess the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
9 thoughts on “Language Quiz”
It’s going to be a difficult one in some ways to figure out since I think it’s an North American indigenous language, maybe from the west coast. There are so many!
It’s either North American or a very drunk Welshman.
Ooh, Joe, Gareth won’t thank you for that!!
We can rule out the Salishan family. It doesn’t have anything near the consonant clusters.
I personally think it comes from up in Québec or Ontario but I have been known to be wrong!
I figured it out! It’s Chilcotin. It’s from 1:52-2:23 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwDIsnd7DXE, the first video I find on YouTube on my phone if I search for Chilcotin language.
I couldn’t figure it out at first. Then, just now, I opened up maps of all the indigenous languages of Canada and the US, opened the map of British Columbia and its vicinity last, saw Chilcotin, remembered a YouTube clip of a song in Chilcotin with a native speaker dressed like a mountie, thought maybe it was that language, popped that into YouTube, and voilà!
I was sure that it was Na-Dené and I was listening to Chilcotin, and I thought it was that language but I was not sure enough.
Hank, I just realized your first guess was right! It is indeed a North American indigenous language from the west coast. Why did you change your guess to the east coast? 🙂 (Just curious!)
The language is Chilcotin (Tŝinlhqut’in), a Northern Athabaskan language spoken British Columbia in Canada.
It’s going to be a difficult one in some ways to figure out since I think it’s an North American indigenous language, maybe from the west coast. There are so many!
It’s either North American or a very drunk Welshman.
Ooh, Joe, Gareth won’t thank you for that!!
We can rule out the Salishan family. It doesn’t have anything near the consonant clusters.
I personally think it comes from up in Québec or Ontario but I have been known to be wrong!
I figured it out! It’s Chilcotin. It’s from 1:52-2:23 of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwDIsnd7DXE, the first video I find on YouTube on my phone if I search for Chilcotin language.
I couldn’t figure it out at first. Then, just now, I opened up maps of all the indigenous languages of Canada and the US, opened the map of British Columbia and its vicinity last, saw Chilcotin, remembered a YouTube clip of a song in Chilcotin with a native speaker dressed like a mountie, thought maybe it was that language, popped that into YouTube, and voilà!
I was sure that it was Na-Dené and I was listening to Chilcotin, and I thought it was that language but I was not sure enough.
Hank, I just realized your first guess was right! It is indeed a North American indigenous language from the west coast. Why did you change your guess to the east coast? 🙂 (Just curious!)
The language is Chilcotin (Tŝinlhqut’in), a Northern Athabaskan language spoken British Columbia in Canada.
The recording comes from YouTube: