Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
6 thoughts on “Language quiz”
I can hear what sounds like phonetic influence from Russian, although it’s not Russian (or any other Slavic language). The musical style also suggests somewhere in the former Soviet Union – somewhere where Orthodox Christianity, not Islam, is the dominant religion. Some faint echoes of Hungarian make me think it could be one of the Mordvin dialects.
I thought of the Uralic languages as well, but don’t really have anything to support that hunch.
I can tell from the music that it’s something from the area of Europe, but with the quality of thw sound all I can make out is that it has mostly unidentified consonants alternating with various “ordinary”-sounding vowels.
Whatever it is, I wanna get lost in that music! 🙂
d.m.f.
Here’s a clue – this language is spoken in Georgia, but isn’t Georgian.
The answer is Mingrelian/Megrelian (მარგალური ნინა), a South Caucasian or Kartvelian language spoken mainly in north western Georgia.
The recording comes from YouTube, and it’s a lullaby.
I can hear what sounds like phonetic influence from Russian, although it’s not Russian (or any other Slavic language). The musical style also suggests somewhere in the former Soviet Union – somewhere where Orthodox Christianity, not Islam, is the dominant religion. Some faint echoes of Hungarian make me think it could be one of the Mordvin dialects.
I thought of the Uralic languages as well, but don’t really have anything to support that hunch.
I can tell from the music that it’s something from the area of Europe, but with the quality of thw sound all I can make out is that it has mostly unidentified consonants alternating with various “ordinary”-sounding vowels.
Whatever it is, I wanna get lost in that music! 🙂
d.m.f.
Here’s a clue – this language is spoken in Georgia, but isn’t Georgian.
The answer is Mingrelian/Megrelian (მარგალური ნინა), a South Caucasian or Kartvelian language spoken mainly in north western Georgia.
The recording comes from YouTube, and it’s a lullaby.