Language Quiz 30 March 202529 March 2025 By Simon Here’s a recording in a mystery language. http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz300325.mp3 Do you know, or can you guess, the language?
Judging by the ‘timbre of the voice’ this could be an African, but probably not Afro-Asiatic, language … Reply
It does sound African but not Bantu. Something reminds me of a language from Polynesia though. Don’t know why although I hear some syllables repeated as lone hears in Polynesian languages. Reply
Probably not Polynesia, Hank, with those nasal vowels and closed syllables … Sounds a bit like poetry. Reply
The mystery language is Nambikwara (Kitãulhu), a Nambikwaran language spoken mainly in Mato Grosso in western Brazil. Reply
Judging by the ‘timbre of the voice’ this could be an African, but probably not Afro-Asiatic, language …
It does sound African but not Bantu. Something reminds me of a language from Polynesia though. Don’t know why although I hear some syllables repeated as lone hears in Polynesian languages.
Probably not Polynesia, Hank, with those nasal vowels and closed syllables … Sounds a bit like poetry.
The mystery language is Nambikwara (Kitãulhu), a Nambikwaran language spoken mainly in Mato Grosso in western Brazil.
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