12 thoughts on “Language quiz

  1. It sounds like an archaic dialect of Arabic, or a language heavily influenced by it. Mehri, maybe?

  2. @lukas: there are some Arabic-like words. I could figure out words like “hizb” (political party) and other things related to military or something. I guess it is a news broadcast. And I’m guessing Somali because I heard him say “Maqdisho”.

  3. I thought it was probably Somali (because of the mention of Mogadiscio near the end). However, I was surprised at how many individual words sounded vaguely Spanish

  4. it sounds rather strange to be a news broadcast, I don’t know maybe the intonation patterns are part of the language…

  5. Based on the intonation, I assumed it was some sort of political or religious broadcast. My guess had been something in the Turkic family, but I like TJ’s suggestion of Somali.

  6. It differentiates between long and short vowels, which Somali does, but other languages from the Cushitic family also do. After comparing with the older Somali quiz
    http://www.omniglot.com/blog/?p=769
    I think it isn’t totally the same, so I would guess it is, for example, Oromo.

  7. LOL in a seocond thought… I think I will get myself busy in this boring office for the time being…

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