Language Quiz 1 December 20241 December 2024 By Simon Here’s a recording in a mystery language. http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz011224.mp3 Do you know, or can you guess, the language?
I’d put it as an indigenous language of North or South America, if I were to choose I’d go with South and likely from a group from the inner continent. Reply
The mystery language is Yaaku (Mogogodo), a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken in Laikipia County in western Kenya. Reply
Is it possibly an indigenous Australian language?
I’m not sure the vowel inventory fits Australian patterns.
I’d put it as an indigenous language of North or South America, if I were to choose I’d go with South and likely from a group from the inner continent.
It may be a modern Aramaic dialect.
I also have a feeling that we are in the Middle East …
The mystery language is Yaaku (Mogogodo), a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken in Laikipia County in western Kenya.