Language Quiz 6 April 20256 April 2025 By Simon Here’s a recording in a mystery language. http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz060425.mp3 Do you know, or can you guess, the language?
It is a kind of different language in… Korean Amharic Armenian Greek Chinese Latin Russian Georgian Reply
Sorry, my mistake. It isn’t a language of Australia, but is in fact spoken quite a bit further north in Asia. Reply
That’s what I thought in the first place: Even the Torres Strait Islands languages don’t exhibit so many fricatives and affricates … Apart from that, I rest my case. Reply
The mystery language is Monguor (Dēd Mongol), a Mongolic language spoken in Qinghai and Gansu Provinces in the northeastern China. Reply
Is it possibly an indigenous Australian language?
Most Australian languages do not exhibit any fricatives, as far as I know …
It is a kind of different language in…
Korean
Amharic
Armenian
Greek
Chinese
Latin
Russian
Georgian
Is it possibly an indigenous Australian language?
I hear a little japanese, might be japanese or korean
It is an indigenous language of Australia.
Is it one of the Torres Strait Islands languages, Meriam Mir or Kala Lagaw Ya?
Sorry, my mistake. It isn’t a language of Australia, but is in fact spoken quite a bit further north in Asia.
That’s what I thought in the first place: Even the Torres Strait Islands languages don’t exhibit so many fricatives and affricates … Apart from that, I rest my case.
The mystery language is Monguor (Dēd Mongol), a Mongolic language spoken in Qinghai and Gansu Provinces in the northeastern China.