Here is today’s mystery language. Does it sound at all familiar?
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Here is today’s mystery language. Does it sound at all familiar?
The audio file is quite large, so will probably be a bit slow to download.
Comments are closed.
It’s obviously a Slavonic language and belongs probably to its Southern branch. Slovene?
Is it Croatian?
My guess is Slovene, too — I think I heard a modified “Ljubljana”.
I think it is a Sorbian language: I heard something like “Chośebuzu” (Cottbus) and a German word about the 22nd second. Also I heard something like uvular R which can be a German influence.
Simon has asked me to tell the answer if he has not been able to today. The answer is Lower Sorbian. It is part of the west-slavic subgroup and has about 55000 speakers in Upper and Lower Lusatia in the German Länder of Saxony and Brandenburg.
Aw, I missed out on account of my timezone!
I was thinking something Southern Slavonic, I’d never have guessed Sorbian, certainly. The prevalent /s/ versus the relatively infrequent /š/ and so on, (mis)lead me away from Western Slavonic languages.