7 thoughts on “Language Quiz

  1. I wrote (in Arabic) Southern Yukaghir, and in Hebrew Odun (aka Odul), a language spoken in the Russian Far East.

  2. I could read the Hebrew Odun but couldn’t find it on the list in “Language Profiles” so I just put down Awing. Still a mystery language all right!

  3. Yes, it is – and also moribund. I’m still not sure, though, whether the other name of Yukaghir is Odul or Odun …

  4. The mystery language is Tundra Yukaghir (Вадул аруу), a Yukaghir language spoken in the Far East region of the Russian Federation, particularly in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

    The recording comes from YouTube:

  5. Simon, this is interesting: It seems to me that the same recording is not only featured on Omniglot under Tundra (Northern) Yukaghir but also under Forest (Southern) Yukaghir – where I found it. This goes back to that YouTube channel which is the source of the story/sample text. How can we be sure then to which of the two Yukaghir languages it belongs?

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