6 thoughts on “Language Quiz

  1. It sounds to me to be a poem (due to a certain rhythm and/or rhyme scheme) in maybe a French-based Creole, perhaps from a former French colony in Africa?

  2. More likely a French variant than a creole, I think. With a creole, I think it’s more likely that a variation on moi would ba e 1SING, but I’m hearing je or j’ used as in standard French. Additionally, I’d expect verbs beginning with vowels would either not be preceded by a je-derived pronoun or would have a for in which l- would be fused onto the stem.

  3. Alternatively, it might be a Berber language such as Shawiyya or Tamazight with a lot of Arabic loanwords.

  4. The mystery language is Shawiya (Tacawit / ⵜⴰⵛⴰⵡⵉⵜ), a Northern Berber language spoken in Algeria and Tunisia, specifically the variety of Shawiya spoken in western Tunisia.

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