The voice has a certain Spanish timbre to it as do a lot of the sounds. The fascinating part to me is that I hear a click but not so strong as say, in a Khoisan language. I therefore agree with Emanuel since maybe there is a dialect of Maya or some other language in that area that has a slight click almost like the “tl” in Nuahatl.
I agree with the mesoamerican idea (though this is 100% not nahuatl).vi am also leaning toward a mayan language based on overall sound and the prevalence of ejectives (maybe Yucatec Maya?)
My first impression was that this is something from the western US, especially because of the speed the speaker is talking with (though maybe that’s just for this recording). Now that I hear the ejective consonants, Mesoamerican does make sense, but I’m still going to put my money on something like Paiute to be contrarian.
It’s Mesoamerican, perhaps Maya, Toltec or related, but I’m not too sure about that …
The voice has a certain Spanish timbre to it as do a lot of the sounds. The fascinating part to me is that I hear a click but not so strong as say, in a Khoisan language. I therefore agree with Emanuel since maybe there is a dialect of Maya or some other language in that area that has a slight click almost like the “tl” in Nuahatl.
I agree with the mesoamerican idea (though this is 100% not nahuatl).vi am also leaning toward a mayan language based on overall sound and the prevalence of ejectives (maybe Yucatec Maya?)
My first impression was that this is something from the western US, especially because of the speed the speaker is talking with (though maybe that’s just for this recording). Now that I hear the ejective consonants, Mesoamerican does make sense, but I’m still going to put my money on something like Paiute to be contrarian.
The mystery language is Itzaʼ, a Yucatecan Mayan language spoken in the Petén Department in northern Guatemala.