Language quiz

By Simon

Here’s a recording of language which is broadcast for just one hour a week on a radio station in Boston. Can you work out which language it is?

This will probably be quite an easy language to guess, so I won’t give you any other clues this time.

14 thoughts on “Language quiz”

  1. I never participate in these and I’m probably about to make it obvious why not.
    It’s sounded like German to me. That being said, this is a language quiz so it can’t be that obvious. Is it Yiddish?

    (The music sounds Russian or maybe Hebrew)

  4. Without reading the other posts I say Swiss German.

    Reading them I have to say Yiddish seems the best because there was not much that sounded German to me.

  8. This is too obvious… the recording is a bit fuzzy so I couldn’t make out many of the words, but the numbers I heard sounded like pure German, and I think I heard the verb “halten” in there somewhere… the “rhythm” also sounded right for that… so my guess is plain ol’ Hochdeutsch… can’t be that simple, can it?

  9. i vote yiddish. german numbers and jewish music. neither pennsylvania dutch nor swiss german would have a radio program in boston. it could possibly be standard high german (i too thought it was a bit fuzzy and quiet), but given the music, and the fact that that would be reeeally easy i go for yiddish.

  10. It’s really too fuzzy for me to make out.
    I can guarantee you that it’s not Hebrew, though.

  11. It cannot be Hebrew; there are Germanic numbers I could understand. The accent is either Hochdeutsch or Yiddish…I mean, doesn’t Yiddish take after Hochdeutsch rather than any of the other German dialects?

  13. Like others have said, it was pretty fuzzy.

    I definitely heard German numbers in it, but that was about all I could make out. I’m guessing Yiddish because of the music.

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