Native Polish speaker here — this language has to be spoken in Poland judging from how much Polish influence I hear in it.
The speaker uses the word ‘juhas’, which means a younger shepherd from Carpathian mountains. Following that clue, I looked up recordings in Goral ethnolect (aka Highlander Polish) and Lemko Rusyn, determining that our mystery language sounds closer to the former, but I still cannot say for sure what this is.
This language is spoken in Poland and in the neighbouring Czech and Slovak Republics. It could therefore be a Silesian or Goralic dialect – or a mixture thereof – from the wider Jablunkov area.
This sounds Slavonic to me, but not like one of the main languages, rather a minority language such as Silesian, Moravian, Sorbian or the like.
Native Polish speaker here — this language has to be spoken in Poland judging from how much Polish influence I hear in it.
The speaker uses the word ‘juhas’, which means a younger shepherd from Carpathian mountains. Following that clue, I looked up recordings in Goral ethnolect (aka Highlander Polish) and Lemko Rusyn, determining that our mystery language sounds closer to the former, but I still cannot say for sure what this is.
This language is spoken in Poland and in the neighbouring Czech and Slovak Republics. It could therefore be a Silesian or Goralic dialect – or a mixture thereof – from the wider Jablunkov area.
Possibly Rusyn?
Yes, a variety of Carpathian Rusyn is also a possibility.
The mystery language is Goral (Górolski), a West Slavic language spoken in southern Poland, northern Slovakia and northeastern Czechia.