The “sound” of the grammar and what he’s saying sounds slightly Bantu. The sound of the letters ( consonants and vowels) and how they are pronounced suggests something from India.
Based on your Timbre-of-the-Voice-Theory I’d go for something African. And so many voiced sibilants as in this recording are not normally to be found in Indo-Aryan languages (except in Arabic and English loans).
The “sound” of the grammar and what he’s saying sounds slightly Bantu. The sound of the letters ( consonants and vowels) and how they are pronounced suggests something from India.
Based on your Timbre-of-the-Voice-Theory I’d go for something African. And so many voiced sibilants as in this recording are not normally to be found in Indo-Aryan languages (except in Arabic and English loans).
I think I hear downsteppedtones, so sub- Saharan Africa seems on the mark.
this sounds A LOT like Igbo imo. i don’t think it’ll be standard Igbo but maybe a dialect?
The mystery language is Putukwam, a Southern Bantoid language spoken in Cross River State in southern Nigeria.