Language Quiz 10 September 20239 September 2023 By Simon Here’s a recording in a mystery language. http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz100923.mp3 Do you know or can you guess the language?
Must be something from southern China… likely either Sino-Tibetan or Hmong-Mien. I’m tending to the latter… if Sino-Tibetan, then my money is on a Loloish language, maybe something close to Yi or Lahu. Reply
The music makes me think it is Asian but the sounds certainly don’t. Could almost be some from the Caucasus. No idea! Reply
It is spoken in Southern China but isn’t Sino-Tibetic. So it could indeed be Hmong-Mien, Kra-Dai or even Austroasiatic. Reply
The language is Tsat, a Northern Chamic language spoken near Sanya in the south of Hainan Province in southern China. The recording comes from YouTube Reply
Must be something from southern China… likely either Sino-Tibetan or Hmong-Mien. I’m tending to the latter… if Sino-Tibetan, then my money is on a Loloish language, maybe something close to Yi or Lahu.
The music makes me think it is Asian but the sounds certainly don’t. Could almost be some from the Caucasus. No idea!
It is spoken in Southern China but isn’t Sino-Tibetic. So it could indeed be Hmong-Mien, Kra-Dai or even Austroasiatic.
probably something from the Altaic family like Tatar or something
The language is Tsat, a Northern Chamic language spoken near Sanya in the south of Hainan Province in southern China.
The recording comes from YouTube