Language quiz 2 June 2013 By Simon Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
One of the Berber languages. With the fairly clearly-pronounced schwas, I’ll hazard a guess at Kabyle/Taqbaylit.
The answer is Riffian (Tamazight Tarifit), a Berber language spoken mainly in the Rif provinces of Morocco. The recording comes from the GRN.
One of the Berber languages. With the fairly clearly-pronounced schwas, I’ll hazard a guess at Kabyle/Taqbaylit.
This one is great! I couldn’t even make a guess as to which continent it’s from.
Here’s a clue – it’s spoken in North Africa.
The answer is Riffian (Tamazight Tarifit), a Berber language spoken mainly in the Rif provinces of Morocco.
The recording comes from the GRN.
hmm just to add. “Rif” in fact means “countryside” in Arabic. Plural is Aryáf.