I think I hear some Russian overtones in this recording. Is it perhaps a language spoken in the Caucasus or elsewhere in the area of the former Soviet Union? Some of the phonology reminds me of an Iranian language …
Were we ever told the origin of the language that was last week’s? There was a reduplication of a week earlier which I took to be a form of Rumansch and then last week I wrote it sounded like a French patois but I never saw the answer to that one.
I think I hear some Russian overtones in this recording. Is it perhaps a language spoken in the Caucasus or elsewhere in the area of the former Soviet Union? Some of the phonology reminds me of an Iranian language …
It is Yaghnobi, a northeastern Iranian minority language spoken in Tajikistan.
Were we ever told the origin of the language that was last week’s? There was a reduplication of a week earlier which I took to be a form of Rumansch and then last week I wrote it sounded like a French patois but I never saw the answer to that one.
The mystery language in the last language quiz was Tigak, a Western Oceanic language spoken in New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea.
Emanuel is right, it is indeed Yaghnobi (Яғнобӣ зивок), an Eastern Iranian language spoken in the Yaghnob Valley in Tajikistan.