Language quiz 23 October 2011 By Simon Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
My my, that sounds rather generic. Could be anything! I do hear a lot of uvular plosives /q/ and glottal stops. I would probably guess something from North Africa. Reply
Or not. Seems many if not most North African languages don’t have uvular consonants. Central Asian? Reply
It’s Hopi. (blah blah blah) [I wrote “It’s Hopi” and the device told me that my comment was a bit too short and that I should try again. Thus the filler.] Reply
The answer is Hopi (Hopilàvayi), an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in parts of Arizona in the USA. The recording comes from the YouTube. There is also an English version. Reply
My my, that sounds rather generic. Could be anything!
I do hear a lot of uvular plosives /q/ and glottal stops. I would probably guess something from North Africa.
Or not. Seems many if not most North African languages don’t have uvular consonants. Central Asian?
Sounds like a Mayan language to me.
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It’s Hopi. (blah blah blah) [I wrote “It’s Hopi” and the device told me that my comment was a bit too short and that I should try again. Thus the filler.]
The answer is Hopi (Hopilàvayi), an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in parts of Arizona in the USA.
The recording comes from the YouTube. There is also an English version.