Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
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Something related to Malay.
Something very very closely related to Malay/Indonesian. It’s been aeons since I last learned or spoke Indonesian but I could still very easily recognise words like ‘mereka’, ‘kepada’, ‘di’, ‘dalam’, ‘gambar’, ‘jalan’, ‘salah’, ‘tuhan’, ‘melakukan’.
I don’t know. The Malay dialect spoken in southern Thailand or maybe even Minangkabau??
Yes, obviously close to Malay, but I think it got its Bible through Dutch, so probably from Indonesia. Sundanese?
Not Sundanese—it is closer to Indonesian/Malay than that, but it is not Indonesian. I’m also thinking Minangkabau.
The answer is Minangkabau (Baso Minangkabau), a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in West and North Sumatra, Riau, Jambi, Bengkulu and Aceh in Indonesia, and in Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia.
Something related to Malay.
Something very very closely related to Malay/Indonesian. It’s been aeons since I last learned or spoke Indonesian but I could still very easily recognise words like ‘mereka’, ‘kepada’, ‘di’, ‘dalam’, ‘gambar’, ‘jalan’, ‘salah’, ‘tuhan’, ‘melakukan’.
I don’t know. The Malay dialect spoken in southern Thailand or maybe even Minangkabau??
Yes, obviously close to Malay, but I think it got its Bible through Dutch, so probably from Indonesia. Sundanese?
Not Sundanese—it is closer to Indonesian/Malay than that, but it is not Indonesian. I’m also thinking Minangkabau.
The answer is Minangkabau (Baso Minangkabau), a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in West and North Sumatra, Riau, Jambi, Bengkulu and Aceh in Indonesia, and in Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia.
The recording comes from the GRN.
Did I hear an “orang” (person) in there as well? That’s what tipped me off (to it being an Indonesian or Malay language), rightly or wrongly.