Language quiz 15 September 2013 By Simon Here’s a recording in a mystery language. Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
The tune is so Scandinavian that I can’t believe I’m not able to parse a single word. So is the voice. (If it weren’t madness, I’d even say Swedish.) I’ll have to say Scandoromani or some close relative of it. Reply
The ‘-tim’ and ‘-da’ endings (last word ‘tabanimda’?) seem to have a distinct Turkic ring to them. Reply
Tricky one. It sounds vaguely like a Turkic language from what sound like Turkic inflectional suffixes to me, but apart from that I couldn’t say. Reply
TJ is right – The answer is Karaim (къарай тили, Karay dili, לשון קדר), a Turkic language spoken in Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. The recording comes from http://daugenis.mch.mii.lt/karaimai/language3.htm. Reply
Sounds very european but the words chiv tiv makes me think of India perhaps Marathi.
The tune is so Scandinavian that I can’t believe I’m not able to parse a single word. So is the voice. (If it weren’t madness, I’d even say Swedish.) I’ll have to say Scandoromani or some close relative of it.
The ‘-tim’ and ‘-da’ endings (last word ‘tabanimda’?) seem to have a distinct Turkic ring to them.
Tricky one. It sounds vaguely like a Turkic language from what sound like Turkic inflectional suffixes to me, but apart from that I couldn’t say.
To me, this seems to have a Jewish liturgical ring to it…
From the past 2 comments, it seems to be a sample from the new added language, Karaim.
TJ is right – The answer is Karaim (къарай тили, Karay dili, לשון קדר), a Turkic language spoken in Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine.
The recording comes from http://daugenis.mch.mii.lt/karaimai/language3.htm.