5 thoughts on “Language Quiz

  1. Yes Hank, definitely Poynesian! My first guess is an Outlier language from the West but I am not too sure because some languages inside the Polynesian Triangle have similar phonologies to Outliers. There is /h/ and /r/ for example (but not /f/, /s/ and /l/). That narrows it down a bit …

  2. Based on the consonant inventory – as far as I am able to discern it, given her rather rapid pace of speech and some background noise – this could be either Reo Rapa or Neo Rapa, both spoken on Rapa Iti. A divergent dialect from the Tuamotus (Pa’umotu) is possible but less likely.

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