Can you identify the language, and do you know where it’s spoken?
11 thoughts on “Language quiz”
An Iranian related language? but not Farsi perhaps Tajiki.
The phono- and morphology suggest something in the Turkic sphere, with lexical influences from Semitic. The story appears to be about Adam and Eve.
Between Turkic and Mongolic sphere. Probably it is the newly added Teleut?
Sounds very Turkic to me too; I think I hear the word “güzel” (beautiful) or something like it. Maybe Western Yugur?
Turkic for sure, could be Kazakh?
I want it to be a Turkic language, but I can’t tell them apart, so I’ll go with Uzbek for no reason except that when I tried to write “Turkmen” it didn’t sit well with me.
It’s definitely some variety of Uzbek, though it sounds like it has some Kazakh influence with the “zh” and “k” sounds which would be a “y” and “h” respectively in standard Uzbek. Thus I would guess it’s Uzbek, but perhaps as spoken in Shymkent (Kazakhstan), where there is a significant Uzbek population.
It’s like a marriage between Uzbek and Kazakh… Could it be Turkmen?
The answer is Karakalpak (Қарақалпақ тили / Qaraqalpaq tili / قاراقالپاق تىلى), a Turkic language spoken mainly in the Karakalpakstan Autonomous Republic in Uzbekistan,
An Iranian related language? but not Farsi perhaps Tajiki.
The phono- and morphology suggest something in the Turkic sphere, with lexical influences from Semitic. The story appears to be about Adam and Eve.
Between Turkic and Mongolic sphere. Probably it is the newly added Teleut?
Sounds very Turkic to me too; I think I hear the word “güzel” (beautiful) or something like it. Maybe Western Yugur?
Turkic for sure, could be Kazakh?
I want it to be a Turkic language, but I can’t tell them apart, so I’ll go with Uzbek for no reason except that when I tried to write “Turkmen” it didn’t sit well with me.
It’s definitely some variety of Uzbek, though it sounds like it has some Kazakh influence with the “zh” and “k” sounds which would be a “y” and “h” respectively in standard Uzbek. Thus I would guess it’s Uzbek, but perhaps as spoken in Shymkent (Kazakhstan), where there is a significant Uzbek population.
It’s like a marriage between Uzbek and Kazakh… Could it be Turkmen?
The answer is Karakalpak (Қарақалпақ тили / Qaraqalpaq tili / قاراقالپاق تىلى), a Turkic language spoken mainly in the Karakalpakstan Autonomous Republic in Uzbekistan,
The recording comes from the GRN.
Simon, that link does not seem to direct to the right language.
I’ve fixed it now.