Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
6 thoughts on “Language quiz”
Latin America because of the Spanish loans. Obviously an indigenous language. Quechua?
It certainly does have Spanish loans, but I could hear what sounds like Semitic words (thalitha, baraq)… So it could be some language from Morocco, although I don’t really know if that’s right.
@Daniel: I also thought there was something Semitic (or, at least, Indo-African) sounding about it – the k/q-type consonants remind me strongly of Arabic. This could well be more to do with influence from Arabic as the dominant language than an actual connection with Arabic. A Berber language from Morocco, perhaps?
I don’t know a lot about the indigenous languages of Latin America, but going on the past examples I’ve heard on this site, I don’t think this sounds like one. I may be completely wrong, however.
I’d say a Mayan dialect of some sort.
I think it’s more likely to be an indigenous language of Central or South America than a Semitic language with borrowed Spanish words here and there.
I’ll have a wild crack at it and say Guarani or one of the other many Tupi languages.
The answer is Q’eqchi’, a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala and Belize
Latin America because of the Spanish loans. Obviously an indigenous language. Quechua?
It certainly does have Spanish loans, but I could hear what sounds like Semitic words (thalitha, baraq)… So it could be some language from Morocco, although I don’t really know if that’s right.
@Daniel: I also thought there was something Semitic (or, at least, Indo-African) sounding about it – the k/q-type consonants remind me strongly of Arabic. This could well be more to do with influence from Arabic as the dominant language than an actual connection with Arabic. A Berber language from Morocco, perhaps?
I don’t know a lot about the indigenous languages of Latin America, but going on the past examples I’ve heard on this site, I don’t think this sounds like one. I may be completely wrong, however.
I’d say a Mayan dialect of some sort.
I think it’s more likely to be an indigenous language of Central or South America than a Semitic language with borrowed Spanish words here and there.
I’ll have a wild crack at it and say Guarani or one of the other many Tupi languages.
The answer is Q’eqchi’, a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala and Belize
The recording comes from the GRN.