17 thoughts on “Language quiz”

1. To me it sounds similar to Japanese, but with many hard Rs. I am sure though that those who actually understand Japanese will strongly disagree about the similarity 🙂

2. Sounds kinda like Tadjik, spoken in Tadjikistan and surrounding countries.

3. sounds japanesey – either a dialect of that or ainu, the only other language i know of spoken in japan

4. ill go with ryuukyuuan, as a random guess

5. i agree with xarxa. it maybe a ryukyuan language such as Okinawan.

6. Definitely an asiatic language, though not necessarily a Turkic language… I don’t think it’s any of the Ryukyu languages, though, either. My guess is that it could be Mongolian.

   d.m.f.

7. Albanian.

8. Some dravidian language.

9. Heard the θ’s (as featured) so I can assume it’s either Albanian or Turkmen, which would be spoken in Albania and Kosovo, or Turkmenistan.

   -Ben

10. turkish? some Turkic language? i know it’s definitely not japanese.

11. I’m going to agree with Ben and Jeremy.

12. I didn’t hear a single [θ] in there, what I heard were voiceless laterals. And plenty of uvulars. I am guessing a Caucasian language.

13. I’m gonna go ahead and guess korean or a dialect thereof.

14. Yaghtz: This is why I went for Mongolian as my guesds. It certainly isn’t Korean, which doesn’t have the hard “r” that can be found in other Mongolic languages. Besides, not once did I hear an “-seo” or “-imnida”, which are common verbal endings. (The latter being similar to the Japanese “desu”- the verb “to be”.)

    d.m.f.

15. A Slavonic language?

16. d.m.falk got it – it is , which is spoken in Mongolia, China, Afghanistan and Russia.

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17. It sounds super-cool.

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